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ImageA New Beginning
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March 17, 2019 in Advertising Commercial Marketing, Amaryllis, Botanicals, Floral, Garden Blooms, Gardening, God's beautiful creation, natural light photography, Nature, Nature's Beauty
Monarch Note Cards
In a short time, our Monarch raising season 2018 will be over and we’ll miss seeing the beauties in the gardens. I’ll miss grabbing my camera to capture them!
Here is a sampling of the Monarch note cards I’ve made by matting my photos and attaching them to 5 x 7 inch note cards. The colors are spectacular!
Inside I stamp a sentiment such as “Happy Birthday!”, “Thinking of you”, “Praying for you”, and “Celebrate Life!”
Each is unique and each honors a special butterfly that we raised this Summer.
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Posted in Animals & Insects, Botanicals, Butterflies, Butterfly Garden, Danaus Plexippus, Education, Fauna, Floral, Floral Gardening, Garden Blooms, Gardening, Gardens, God's beautiful creation, Landscape, Lifestyle, lifestyle photography, Monarchs, My Gardens, natural light photography, Nature, Nature's Beauty, Perennials, Photo Notecards, Pollinators, Snapshots, Summer Days, Sunlight, Uncategorized
Tagged Butterflies, Gardening, God's Creation, Monarch Note Cards, Monarch Waystation, Monarchs, nature, nature photography, Pollinators
How My Garden Blooms
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~ Walt Whitman
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~ Cicero
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Posted in Animals & Insects, Annuals, Butterflies, Butterfly Garden, Floral, Floral Gardening, Garden Blooms, Gardening, Landscape, Lifestyle, lifestyle photography, Memories, Spring Blooms, Summer Blooms, Summer Days, Sunlight
Tagged bees, Cosmos, Echinacea, Emerald Hackberry, Flowers, Gallardia, Gardening, Hostas, Lantana, Mexican Sunflower, nature, Painted Ladies, Pollinators, Rhododendrum, Skippers, Spicebush Swallowtail, Spiderwort, Swallowtails, Tithonia, Zinnias
Danaus Plexippus — The Monarch
The Monarch may be the most recognized butterfly in North America, and maybe in the world!
Three years ago we began to plant milkweed, the host plant for the adult female Monarch to lay eggs and for the caterpillar to feed on the leaves.
This year our nationally registered Monarch Waystation 17014 was the home to many eggs, caterpillars and nectaring Monarchs.
The slideshow presents a few of the Monarchs we released with a “Godspeed” as we watched them catch a high wind on their migratory journey to Mexico.
We enjoyed involving our gardening friends, a teen neighbor girl, and classrooms of third graders, helping them to learn more about Monarchs and establishing their own habitats to protect them.
Did you know only about 2% of all Monarch caterpillars survive in the “wild” to become a butterfly? The entire process takes only about one month. Predators are wasps, lizards, praying mantises, birds, and more.
Monarchs matter! To learn more, please visit http://www.monarchwatch.org
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Posted in Animals & Insects, Botanicals, Butterflies, Butterfly Garden, Danaus Plexippus, Floral Gardening, Garden Blooms, Gardening, Gardens, Landscape, lifestyle photography, Monarchs, My Gardens, natural light photography, Nature, Nature's Beauty, Perennials, Pollinators, Snapshots, SOOC
Tagged Butterflies, butterfly garden, Danaus Plexippus, Flowers, Gardening, God's Creation, Migration, Monarchs, Monarchs Matter, nature, nature photography, Summer project
Lantana Camara
Lantana Camara is one of the varieties in the Lantana family, a flowering plant that attracts both butterflies and pollinators.
Here it’s blooming amid the lavender hosta blooms. My favorite time to capture blooms is right after a morning rain shower and before I melt with the high heat and humidity!
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Posted in Botanicals, Butterfly Garden, Fauna, Floral, Floral Gardening, Garden Blooms, Gardening, Gardens, God's beautiful creation, Landscape, lifestyle photography, My Gardens, natural light photography, Nature, Nature's Beauty, Pollinators, SOOC, Spring Blooms, Sunlight
Tagged butterfly garden, FujixT2, God's Creation, Hosta blooms, Lantana, Life, Nectar Plants
Hello, Black Swallowtails!
Our butterfly garden has been abuzz lately with the hot temperatures and high humidity this Spring. These Black Swallowtails spent some time nectaring on the Butterfly Weed before they flew to their next snack stop. These are common in the Midwest and the Swallowtail caterpillars are usually found on plants in the parsley family (fennel and parsley are favorite host plants). The butterflies look for nectar-providing flowers.
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Posted in Animals & Insects, Botanicals, Butterflies, Butterfly Garden, Fauna, Floral, Floral Gardening, Garden Blooms, Gardening, Gardens, God's beautiful creation, Landscape, Lifestyle, lifestyle photography, My Gardens, natural light photography, Nature, Nature's Beauty, Perennials, SOOC, Spring, Spring Blooms, Sunlight
Tagged Black Swallowtail Butterfly, Butterflies, butterfly garden, Butterfly Weed, Flowers, Gardening, God's Creation, Life, nature, Swallowtail Butterflies
Getting Ready for the Monarchs
Roxie and I are excited to begin our 2018 butterfly gardens!
Our new book “The Monarch” by Kylee Baumle is just packed with information about the Monarch eggs, caterpillars, chrysalis stage, and the eclosing of the beautiful Monarch! (This book is available on Amazon.com I’m recommending the book as a personal user and do not receive any compensation for my recommendation.)
Help save the pollinators and butterflies! Create your own special garden either in containers or in the ground by using a variety of milkweed plants and native host and nectar plants in your growing area!
Find more information at http://www.monarchwatch.org
Visit your nearest botanical garden(s) for information on butterfly and pollinator gardening.
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Posted in Animals & Insects, Backyard Play, Bees, Botanicals, Butterflies, Butterfly Garden, Education, Favorite Books, Floral, Floral Gardening, Garden Blooms, Gardening, Gardens, Landscape, Lifestyle, lifestyle photography, Missouri Botanical Gardens, Monarchs, My Gardens, natural light photography, Nature, Nature's Beauty, Peace-filled Retirement, Pets, Pollinators, SOOC, Spring, Sunlight
Tagged butterfly garden, Dogs, Gardening, Life, nature, Pollinators
