Raising Monarchs indoors helps to protect them from predators and assists them in their struggle for survival, increasing their numbers during this difficult time of diminishing habitat.
This lovely flower deserves a place of honor in every butterfly garden.
What surprising qualities this plant has: early nectar for bees and butterflies, plus beautiful flowers and fruit.
This beautiful evergreen vine is disease and insect free, plus the blooms are amazing.
I have great hope for this plant to provide the abundant Milkweed we need to raise many Monarchs and Queens. This plant is also a powerful magnet for all kinds of pollinators, including bees and many other butterflies.
What a beautiful and useful plant this is! This plant is really attractive with its red stems and white flowers that turn into lovely red berries. The leaves also turn gorgeous colors in the fall. It can grow as high as six or eight feet.
This Texas Sage variety was discovered by Lynn Lowrey while he was on one of his road trips in search of new and different native plants. He found it by the side of the road and was astonished by its shade of color and beauty. He took a cutting to his greenhouse and propagated it so that everyone could enjoy it.
Just at the time when most flowering plants are going to rest for the winter, this plant explodes into gorgeous blooms that cover the entire plant.
Coralberry is a lovely semi-evergreen shrub suitable both for house foundation plantings and for naturalization.
American Beautyberry decorates the fall landscape with lovely cascading color while providing lots of food for birds and small mammals.
Asclepias curassavica is not winter hardy here in North Central Texas, so in order to have fresh milkweed ready for the Monarchs as they return from their wintering in Mexico, I keep milkweed in large pots and bring them into the garage during freezing weather and then take them out again when the danger of frost is past. This way, I have plants for them to lay their eggs on in the spring.
Frostweed is a lovely perennial plant that is native to Texas and many other states, but has been ignored by commercial nurseries.
This beautiful annual of the Fabaceae family is the most recognized Texas Native Wildflower.