Monthly Archives: July 2021

It’s butterfly season!

Every year we plant more host and nectar plants. We have over 200 milkweed in our conservation easement. It is the host plant for monarch butterflies. We also have spicebush for the spicebush swallowtail, pipevine for the pipevine swallowtail, tulip trees for tiger swallowtails, maypop passionvine for the variegated fritillary, and many more. If you don’t have a yard but want to help butterflies, potted flowers on a porch are helpful. It is wonderful to greet the butterflies every year! They do love our flowers! Hope you get a chance to read Lela and the Butterflies!