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Aug 24, 2016 9:28 AM CST
Name: Cheryl
Brownstown, Pennsylvania (Zone 6b)
Native Plants and Wildflowers Organic Gardener Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Region: Pennsylvania Region: Mid-Atlantic Bee Lover
Butterflies Dragonflies Spiders! Frogs and Toads Birds Hummingbirder
Thanks Fleur for the acorn and liking my post!
I posted this on the Thread: What plants in your garden attracts the most butterflies? Copy & paste write-up:

Isn't it exciting and relaxing to see who shows up in your garden? In my experience, the best way to get and KEEP them is to be certain to provide lots of host plants as well as a big assortment of nectar plants to give them variety, that way they come to dine at your house as both caterpillars and adults. We'd prefer a loaded buffet ourselves, right? nodding Host plants on your property will help to insure that small colonies will make your place a permanent home. If any caterpillar habitat nearby your garden is taken away- for example a field or wooded area is razed for a housing development- then there go all your beautiful butterflies!! Our winged beauties have to start life children first. LOL- If you "own" your caterpillars, you wont need to "rent" your butterflies. Pollinator partnership has a super guide with lists of best suggestions for your area, just plug in your zip code:
http://www.pollinator.org/guid...
Here's some eye candy on my fav plants for nectar and leaves
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Monarch Butterfly Milkweed plantFritillary-wild violetsThumb of 2016-08-24/nativeplantlover/75788fBlack Swallowtail on Rue
And here's the gorgeous outcome in order:
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Here's the wild violets and creeping phlox, both native plants in the area right before planting along with chives etc:
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When it was still just a strip of turf grass between two properties, 1st planting was the trumpet creeper:
Thumb of 2016-08-24/nativeplantlover/ebd9eb Thumb of 2016-08-24/nativeplantlover/41c312newborn Sphinx caterpillar on trumpet creeper this year.
<---growing this Virginia creeper could produce this: Pandora Sphinx:
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Thumb of 2016-08-24/nativeplantlover/573ece butterfly milkweed is beautiful as well as functional. Plants really do have a #1 purpose in nature, to produce food for living creatures, the fact that we like them is incidental.
"If a plant isn't feeding something it isn't doing it's job" --Dr Doug Tallamy
"My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." — Mary Oliver, from Messenger

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