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Hi beautiful lady!🙋🏼‍♀️love your video! I have a question again. lol I have 16 gulf fritillary caterpillars on my passion fruit vine. I haven’t had it long from joyful butterfly. Will it be enough?

My husband drove me crazy, he gave my spider plant a box cut., trimmed all my day lilies back because blooms sticking out. Looked disorderly. He has been retired! My daughter and I do the lawns and gardens. But then she got a puppy. If he sees us plant it, he tanks it out!!! Drives me crazy!! Lol.

Great video Susan... In my garden there has been at least 4 Zebras Swallowtail every day for the last week. And they feed on just three plants and they are the Golden Dewdrop, Butterfly Bush and lastly the Butterfly Weed, passing over all the Red Pentas, Tropical Sage and Fire Bush. Last thing... you mention on an earlier video that your caterpillers are disappearing in the night and so I got up very early in the morning this week and I found a mass of Fire Ants in my Wild Lime covering and eating a 5th instar Giant Swallowtail Caterpiller. That really made me upset, but nature is nature.

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This has been the year of the swallowtail in my garden. I am finally starting to get some baby Monarch cats on my giant milkweed (ssshhh that’s not native). I need to up my fennel game to. I have grown so much, but they continually devour every plant. What I am not seeing right now are Gulf Fritillary and Zebra Long wings. I had tons of them earlier, but they seem to be slacking off. I am really excited to try some carrot foliage this fall and winter. My dill was beautiful last year

Momma swallowtail has been visiting my fennel and carrot tops a lot lately, my carrot tops are loaded with eggs...😳 My rue has 2 tiny cats on it for the first time.

So you got another zebra swallowtail to visit, and I think I’ve said this about all three, but I think that one was a female😂. I may or may not have swiped some pawpaw fruits from my campus trees to get some seeds of them but for all I’m paying they can part with two fruits😂 I’m also buying some pawpaw trees from a site called Logee’s. They have some cool plants on there including heirloom red pentas. It’s kind of a gem find. If only they sold Sweetgum trees to feed my moths… but those I’ll have to buy from somewhere else.

Lots of bees on the white flowers. That's good that you have both butterflies and bees that means you have a healthy garden.

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Is "Porter Weed ' an annual or perennial?

Lol, First! 😎 And I was just watching another one of your vids

How long does it usually take you to water your entire garden?

The walkway look magical! I know you are always looking for content ideas. I really need a crash course on Swallowtail identification. I tend to just throw Giant and Eastern Black names at all of them. Maybe I have something more exciting! I have one of those ID pamphlets that I love, but it doesn’t really highlight the difference. I also would love to see how to plant the tops of carrots for food and blooms for this winter. My dill was beautiful this winter and spring.

Morning Susan your garden is beautiful I have a potted garden for the butterflies too greetings from my butterfly garden in ft Lauderdale 😊

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Got nice cool Fall weather outside today! Lisa

I have so many hummingbirds today and a butterfly drinking from the hummingbird feeder… Love all your videos❤

What is the orange butterfly in the beginning at 0:24?

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Very Nice Vid! I Recently Captured A Female Tiger Swallowtail On Vid And Felt Like I Found A Treasure! U Rarely See Butterflies Now A Days Atleast Not Like When I Was A Kid. But I Want A 🦋 🦋 Garden Now ❤ 😊 🙏 🤲

Morning Susan beautiful garden I just had 2 beautiful Monarch's eclose yesterday greetings from my butterfly garden in ft Lauderdale 😊

What kind of potting soil do you use? It always looks so good!

Hello, I just realized I forgot to comment! I wanted to comment on that gorgeous male queen. He’s got two extra white patches on him towards the middle there. That means you have a butterfly with an aberration in your garden. If you google some pictures there are butterflies with aberrations that are slightly different and drastically different. But I just thought it was a cool little thing to point out. They’re uncommon so enjoy him while he’s visiting! I don’t know much more on the subject other than an aberration in a butterfly simply means it’s different from the standard pattern. As always though, I tapped the like button and look forward to the next video. (Oh and if by chance you can find sweet clover, it’s a great nectar and host plant for hairstreaks. I literally yanked some from a roadside in Crystal River when I was in Florida with my grandma one summer to raise Gray Hairstreaks😂)

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I wonder have you noticed any different species that have showed up with your increased diversity of flowers? More skippers, hairstreaks, satyr, crescents, metalmark?

Ohhh I love canna's. I have some trying to attract Brazilian skippers too but I think I'm kinda on the edge of the range. I'm sure if you get that canna established and as it starts multiplying that is when they'll probably show up! I can't wait! I wish sometimes we could fast forward a few years and see all the wonderful butterfly species that are firmly established in your garden then. Zebra swallowtail for sure and pheon crescent and atla I just know it will happen given time.

where are you that you dont have a lizard problem? Or do you do something to keep lizards, iguanas and other animals away?

You made comment about caterpillars disappearing over night maybe those lizards you show sometimes have something to do with it!

Okay I just got settled in for the night and decided to wind down with this video. I loved it! It was like me this week. I legitimately have been looking for all the new plants on campus that I can take home tomorrow in an attempt to root them at my house😂 I found some things that you’ll see tomorrow on IG. Plants are fun. By the way my mom said my joyful butterfly delivery caterpillars are doing well on the false nettle. I wonder if I got red admirals or question marks😂

Hey Susan, don't you have. a toothache tree? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

Thanks great video. Nature or shall I say gardening has to be #1 when it comes to becoming grounded while doing it. I totally get you Susan. Not only is it a safe place, it's a place to be close to source, whatever that is for you, and feed your soul!! Then add all you incredible friends flying and crawling around....wow...Amazing. Much love 🦋

Your garden just makes me happy, and I'm not even there. Your videos calm me and helps with my mental health as well. Nature is the biggest healer. It feels like as if I am there 😊❤

Great Video!