Butterflies Found in the Native Plant Garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- I put together a short video of some butterflies we saw in the garden lately. I hope you enjoy this one. The next video will be a front garden tour. Happy gardening!
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The butterflies are absolutely beautiful, well done on the butterfly/wildlife garden.
Thank you so much!🙂
Your cinematography has leveled up… really enjoying the footage 👍
I'm glad you're enjoying it. Thanks for the comment!
THANK YOU! Oh, I absolutely loved watching the butterflies in your garden. Can't wait to see more creature videos.s If I could give you 1K thumbs up, I would! You deserve it. 😃
Aww thank you so much! that means a ton to me! I do hope to do a bird video soon. I also have a garden tour edited and that will be going up on the channel even sooner. Thanks so much for the kind words and for taking the time to watch!
BUTTERFLIES! So nice to get a "tour" of them in your garden too. Are you finding an increase in number and species as your garden grows and matures?
Sort of. There was a lag between when I used to plant zinnias and mexican sunflowers and when I started really only planting native plants. I think it was a combo of needing the plants to mature and also needing them to spread. It's easier for pollinators like butterflies to find them when they are in bigger mass plantings than one or two here and there spread out. So, you could imagine the big swaths of zinnias and tithonias I used to have and how bright and colorful those are and how many butterflies I got with those. However, I got to a point where I realized how much more important it is to grow native plants, so I switched to those. At first I saw less butterflies, but over the years, I now see butterflies more often. I still have work to do, however, in attracting more swallowtails specifically. This year was the first year that I feel the native plants have really started attracting more swallowtail butterflies. The pipevine and spicebush swallowtails, however, I do not see as often, and I'm hoping that adding more of their host plants will help. I have 2 spicebushes and 1 sassafras. However, I do not have any pipevine plants. So I will be adding pipevine as soon as i can if I can find a good spot in the garden for it. :) It's a work in progress, but I will say that I totally understand if people want to grow zinnias and tithonia alongside their native plants in a transition period, since those non-natives can really attract the adults strongly. I may even add some of those next year if I can make room for them. I do think the native plants should be priority, but it's okay to have some non-native (but also non-invasive) plants to supplement the in between months or what have you. :)
@@awildapproach Thank you Macey. That is very informative! You are such an inspiration.