General Gardening
Tags: beneficial insects, butterflies and bees, butterfly garden, butterfly gardens, caterpillars, climate zone, cucumbers, flowers, gardening, harvesting, host, nectar, novice gardener, plant, plants, pollinators, stamen and pistil, sun, tomato plant, tomatoes, vegetable garden
April 5, 2009
Butterflies tend to hang out near one of two plants: ones that produce a tasty snack of nectar, and plants where they will lay eggs. These are known best as nectar and host plants. And, since butterflies can tend to be picky eaters, they often use just a single plant family as a food source for the caterpillars. Prevailing wisdom is to plant both nectar and host plants to draw butterflies into their gardens.
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It all started with a bare back yard at a friend’s house and a dream. A rototiller, plants, and a few weekends and now we have a garden.
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Faced with the task of getting water under a brick patio and to the garden, we decided to reclaimed an old waterline that was abandoned a couple years prior.
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