Année
Votre jardin
Jardin pour la biodiversité
Oasis pour les monarques
Témoignage
This is the fifth year since we created a garden to attract/save/protect bees and butterflies.
Our garden consists of many varieties of coneflowers, buddleias, cosmos, lavender, sedums, milkweed and many others. We also have a large section of raspberries, a cherry tree, a magnolia tree, a Japanese lilac tree and two three-season lilac trees that I added this year.
This year when we were home, we counted 23 days that we saw a monarch or more in our garden giving us a total of 31 monarchs, twice we had two at a time, twice we had four at a time and the 19 other times we had one monarch during those 31 days. I know some of them are the same butterflies that return after they hide/sleep when the sun goes down in my yard. In July, two monarchs were spotted on the 14th and the 31st. All the others were spotted between August 7th and the 12th of September. There were a lot of bees but not many other butterflies this year I noticed, some cabbage whites, a few red admirals, two different hummingbird clearwing/sphinx moths, one milberts tortoiseshell, some yellow warblers and one swallowtail seen on June 18th besides the other kind of insects.