12 years later and still an amazing source for someone looking to get into gardening and specifically butterfly gardening! Thank you very much for making this video I'm excited to see what other content you've made!
Thank you so much for that uber informative and beautiful video. You really are Tom Terrific! I see that this was first offered 11yr ago. Wow, still reaching and teaching all these years later. I'm complete novice to this and mainly have cone flowers and one big asclepsia tuberosa. I also have many irises and amyrillys but don't know if the butterflies like them. I'm in NCentral AR between Harrison and Mt Home so your zone is near or like mine which is also very helpful. Blessings, p
I spend Saturday & Sunday's in my garden with no distractions except for the sounds of birds, squirrels, and bees. Who needs tv or radio?? Enough said...I have to take my coffee outside and start my gardening routine.
I loved this video. I've been raising caterpillars (at some level or other) since I was about 8 years old... many years ago to say the least. Used to put them in a shoe box, from which they'd escape and make their chrysalis all over our house. This year I've expanded significantly, trying to attract a greater variety of butterflies. I second the notion (big time) that butterfly gardening is amazing for mental health. Lovely video. Thanks. And I'll check out your website.
I have to save this video for me to refer to for what to plant every season of the year. . You have a comprehensive info for making a butterfly garden. Thanks sir. Keep on making such great video. 👌🤓👍
The video was SO well organized! It made me think about things I never would have considered and saved me so much time and effort. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!
ByHisGrace87 great inspiration .👍👍💐💐💐 . Have u started ? Trust me it will be great. Will love to see your videos of ur garden. living with the nature is true life. Since 2005 i have created butterfly garden in my home. It gives immense pleasure to see them and shooting photos and videos . Happy butterflying.
I only have half acre of property, I can’t do all that. I would love to but I just don’t have the space. So I chose to have milkweed and butterfly bush for monarchs and bumblebees. I have other bushes, trees, flowers and plants. It’s a lot of work just keeping the weeds away. Btw if i were a butterfly, I’d live in your garden. 😎
We need to lobby for responsible land management a fewer chemical pest in our communities! We can make a difference. The pics you showed of land clearing is so sad. Hurts my heart. Love the info in your video. Thank you!
Thanks SO MUCH for this video!! I grew up in the countryside and there were tons of butterflies. Now I’m living more in the city, so I’m so grateful to you for this super informative video! I’ve been getting a few more butterflies to my garden before this, by planting more flowers, but this video I can tell is going to help me immensely to kick my garden up a notch. You have no idea how thankful I am that you made this video!☺️💜✨🌈🌷🌻🦋
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@@yes Just paper bags and then cardboard over the grass with a mulch layer on top of the cardboard will kill the weeds, Then you just make holes in the carboard the following spring to plant your garden. The mulch stays on top of the cardboard layer and doesn't leech nitrogen away, all of the dead weeds will provide nitrogen for the years plants in your butterfly garden. The mulch will break down the following year as well to feed the garden and if you just continually add mulch year after year you will keep the weeds down and build up your soil/soil nutrition. This way pesticides won't be destroying your microbiology in the soil that makes your plants healthy, and you won't kill beneficial insects.
@@Canceriantigershark, I know you get it. I keep trying to teach this method to whomever will listen. Newspaper, cardboard, paper bags, then mulch on top. In a few years your garden soil is gold. And NO chemicals. Happy plants, and insects.
I wanted to thank you so much for putting together this outstanding video! It is *exactly* the information I need. I am doing my first butterfly garden here in SE Michigan and am in the middle of growing my native plants in the basement and preparing the garden right now. I'll use many of the ideas you presented. I'm finding the design part the most challenging.(what to put where). Can't thank you enough for your outstanding and super helpful video!
You made this video and care for your garden with an immense amount of love. Thank you so much for helping the butterfly population and helping others with this brilliant video who also want to help our butterflies. I also loved the narration and the music! Take care in those difficult times!
Sugar Creek Gardens in Kirkwood MO is a great place to find Milkweed and many other natural Missouri plants. I am just starting out as a Monarch Mamma and they were so very helpful.
Great Job! Butterflies are endangered and we need to do everything we can to save them. Fennell, dill and passiflora vines will greatly help. Use Vinegar and Baking Soda then add newspaper for 1-2 weeks - weeds gone -
Thank you for this informative video !!! I love it except for the Roundup part. You can sheet mulch by covering your lawn/weeds with recycled flattened cardboard boxes, add adequate organic compost and wood chip mulch on top. In half a year or so, your grass below the cardboard will die without use of toxic chemicals.
Hi 80s Pilot, I use boxes that do not have plastic (I remove all plastic tapes, wraps) and also no colorful dyes (I pick plain boxes with black ink dyes or cut out the glossy colorful prints, if any, on the boxes), I do not remove the boxes that I use for sheet mulching. Once, I lay those sheets down to kill the weeds, I let the boxes compost into soil by a few months. As Mellisa K above say, I do notice earthworms love to congregate by the old cardboard. Easy and organic solution. Look up "Sheet mulching" on youtube for this easy method.
Fantastically helpful video. I already had it on my mind to do something in a small piece of communal garden area where I live but I will definitely be expanding on that with something a bit more ambitious as a direct result of your video. Thank you very much.
A very informative and helpful video! And yes, your note in the description is good advice. There are safe and easy chemical-free ways to stop weeds and grass.
GREAT VIDEO TOM ! loved watching all i too love good people around me,beautiful flowers and butterflies you got experience and you guided well.. i wont use pesticides i may have used before for keeping plant save from ants but now i wont use .. great video
I had an interesting thing happen, I saved a seedling of Black Willow, a native Californian riparian tree/shrub that sprouted in the wrong place. While it was sitting in a pot, waiting to be planted, I noticed some caterpillars feeding on the leaves. I had not seen them before so I looked them up on line and discovered them to be White Admirals! There are four on this plant now. I have a black willow on another part of my property and when it flowers it is covered by more different types of bees and wasps than I've ever seen in one place. The black willow may not look like much, but it seems like one of the best wildlife plants ever.
This is a fantastic video, interesting, funny & informative. My only reservation about it is that you are promoting Round Up. Perhaps you are not entirely informed or like most people believe the lies industry tells you, but you really should look into the safety of using this product. It has been banned from use in our city, unfortunately it is still being sold in stores- it is a dangerous chemical and is backed by the likes of Monsanto. If you want to keep it green, use vinegar & hard work.
Awesome video, never thought so much about butterflies before, just thought about them when I pried them out the the grill of my pickup. We must provide them habitat as they are gods creatures like everyone else and this world needs them to be with us.
Actually it is the importance of butterfly caterpillars to birds to feed their babies. 97% of birds have to have caterpillars to feed their babies. It’s nice that butterflies are beautiful. Flowers are beautiful, and birds are beautiful.
Thank you. I do not use any foreign substances or fertilizers. I dealt with slugs hunting slugmagedon all summer picking them off as not to harm anything but the slugs and snails destroying my plants. There were many more as my entire village fought them last year. I have lived at my current house for 6 years. This year being my 7th full season. I have several loved beds. I am one the believes in nature happens. I place my brush and grasses after winter has gone by the wayside. Our last frost in Chautauqua county NY normally May 15th
Wow! Great details except you spoiled it for me when you sited using round up! Newspapers works too for weed control or cardboard...then you aren’t contaminating your soil.
Friendly update: Butterfly bush is now considered noxious in most parts of U.S. Look for substitutes suitable to your area through extension servce or a butterfly club.
Great video and very inspiring. I look forward to all the advice your may have regarding my new found quest, which is to create a habitat for these wonderful insects.
Watched most of it and learned some useful information. You lost me at around 35 when you suggested the use of RoundUp. 😱 Let’s please not poison the earth.
I would add a commandment. GO NATIVE (plants) as much as possible. Many plants like the butterfly bush you suggested are invasive in some areas. Everyone should do themselves a favor and join their local native plant society. The axiom you should ALWAYS work from is Right Plant Right Place. If a plant is invasive, it most certainly is not the right plant!
Tom, I love this. I tried a butterfly garden 3 years ago, but I didn't do it quite right, although the 1st year was great. I'd love to get your advice for my area.
byedaway1 New butterfly gardens go thru growing pains as young host plants provide little to no shelter or food to larvae. They are sitting ducks to wasps and other predators. As your host plants and other plants in your garden grow and mature, you will soon have more cats and butterflies than there are predators to eat them all. Patience. It is frustrating to see all your caterpillars disappear one by one, but it all balances out in the end. It takes a couple of seasons for any butterfly garden to mature, depending upon how old your plants are when you purchase or collect them.
Danaus, in my case not having enough cats was NOT my problem... Lol... I had so many they completely destroyed my brand new garden. I would come home at lunch from work and I could watch up to three Monarchs hatching from chrysalises all over the yard (The most chrysalises I had at any one time was about 100... hanging mostly on my fence, but also on just about anything... even a shovel I leaned against the wall). I raised plants from seed and I must have planted about 800 plants from 21 different milkweed species. 95% or more died within 3 or 4 months of planting them, I think because every leaf and small stem was devoured. Some were 3 or 4 feet tall (the biggest ones) and they were stripped bare. I had a stick garden. The season for Monarchs here is Nov through Feb (I live next to an overwintering site) so I planted in mid March after the bulk had migrated north. I was hoping to have a great garden by the fall. Didn't work out!
Tom, quite a few of your flower choices are invasive--no matter what part of the U.S. Butterfly Bush, for example, has escaped into the wild and is wiping out natives. I had a few in my yard when I first moved in and they seeded like crazy. Took me all summer to get most of it. Moreover, they only provide food, not shelter or caterpillar habitat. Better to plant something with multiple functions. With that said, your program is wonderful.
A robin set up her nest in my bbq area. I bbq'd not knowing that she couldn't take the smoke. I now know but ALL birds left. The squirrels left too, what a benefit. Luckily I still have my Monarchs an yellow swallowtails.
I thought this was a great, comprehensive video. I wish that you had also used the scientific names of plants rather than just the common names (sometimes only useful in local areas). I absolutely disagree with using Roundup on the soil to get rid of the grass and weeds. It is poisonous and causes lots of chronic health issues. (There is new scientific literature available to support this). I also don't agree with tilling the garden. As an alternative you need to start months before you want to plant and start with sheet mulching. It is a natural, non-till easy way to get rid of the grass and weeds and in addition helps with simultaneous soil prep. Once you have the grass and weeds gone, then you can turn the soil by hand and get rid of rocks and roots and then mound your soil into the contours you want for the garden shape. We did this with our pollinator garden that is a 22' round garden with a walkway through the middle. We put down the sheet mulch (several layers of cardboard boxes from the bike or appliance store) in the fall with a layer of alpaca poo and leaves on top. By spring the area was free of weeds and the soil was fantastic and ready to prepare for planting. This garden bloomed beautifully the first fall (last year) and this spring is magnificent already (lots of bees and butterflies) and it is late April in Southern Oregon.
Amrita Cottrell great suggestion. To save nature , we have to attract more people to create such gardens. We must provide information in such way , so that everyone will understand easily and starts creating garden immediately. living with the nature is true life. Since 2005 i have created butterfly garden in my home. It gives immense pleasure to see them and shooting photos and videos . Happy butterflying.
I am living at my parents home right now and have decided to change their courtyard. It already has great Illinois soil. It was done by a landscaper. Everything grows great there, but there are old bushes, lots of creeping myrtle. I am planning to include some herbs like hyssop, a blueberry bush, and possibly a clematis or other flowing vine. I may do a butterfly puddle or just a bird bath. I already have 4 hummingbird feeders hanging on the fence. My question is: will the plants do well in the myrtle groundcover or should I take it out. There is also some ajuga. Is it okay to include columbine and lupines. I love those.
I have gulf fritillaries in my yard, and I didn't even what they are:-) I have this vine called passioflora foetida, and they have caterpillars in it, how was yours?
You know how to tell when you have a successful butterfly garden? When you have to wave off at least three types of butterflies just get in your car, when your echinacea is eaten to stubs by caterpillars and you never quite see the orange flowers on your common milkweed because its constantly consumed. No worries with the thistle…what the butterflies don’t consume, the American Goldfinch will! My butterfly garden this year was epic and next year, even bigger!
Tom, I love butterflies but I am wondering if I plant a few host plants in my garden, will they eat the leaves of my other perennials and annuals or only that of the host plant? I sincerely do not have enough money to replace the perennials in my yard if the caterpillars kill them by eating up all of their leaves. Thanks!
The caterpillars will only eat the host plants that they are laid on. If any host plants you are gonna add, related to another one that's already in your yard, then there is a chance that you would get caterpillars on those. But a simple solution is just to move that caterpillars from that plant to the one you DO want the larvae to munch on.
Need some help. Recently bought 2 small rue plants. Swallowtails have already laid a lot of eggs on them and I am afraid the plants are not big enough to support all those caterpillars when they hatch. What can I do to help them can I buy anything to feed them from grocery store like parsley, carrot tops etc.? Do you have any suggestions? Thank you
All of the information in this video is useful. Just avoid the part where he suggests using roundup as it has the potential of causing cancer and not only that, but its bad for the environment. Turn to more natural methods of removing weeds such as covering the area with a dark and opaque tarp, or pulling the weeds and then mulching over it a little at a time if you don't have the patience or the time to do it all at once. Organic gardening is good for both the plants and the environment. Also consider using containers to take advantage of small spaces that cant be dug up and planted in.
Birds will only successfully breed in your yard if there are thousands of caterpillars in the immediate area, which requires lots of native plants, or at least several native trees like Oaks, which support hundreds of caterpillars. Look up Doug Tallamy.
12 years later and still an amazing source for someone looking to get into gardening and specifically butterfly gardening!
Thank you very much for making this video I'm excited to see what other content you've made!
Thank you so much for that uber informative and beautiful video. You really are Tom Terrific! I see that this was first offered 11yr
ago. Wow, still reaching and teaching all these years later. I'm
complete novice to this and mainly have cone flowers and one
big asclepsia tuberosa. I also have many irises and amyrillys but
don't know if the butterflies like them. I'm in NCentral AR between Harrison and Mt Home so your zone is near or like mine which is also very helpful. Blessings, p
I spend Saturday & Sunday's in my garden with no distractions except for the sounds of birds, squirrels, and bees. Who needs tv or radio?? Enough said...I have to take my coffee outside and start my gardening routine.
they're so beautiful and delicate! thank you for sharing!
I loved this video. I've been raising caterpillars (at some level or other) since I was about 8 years old... many years ago to say the least. Used to put them in a shoe box, from which they'd escape and make their chrysalis all over our house. This year I've expanded significantly, trying to attract a greater variety of butterflies. I second the notion (big time) that butterfly gardening is amazing for mental health. Lovely video. Thanks. And I'll check out your website.
I have to save this video for me to refer to for what to plant every season of the year. . You have a comprehensive info for making a butterfly garden. Thanks sir. Keep on making such great video. 👌🤓👍
The video was SO well organized! It made me think about things I never would have considered and saved me so much time and effort. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!
Don't use Round Up. It can cause cancer!!!!
Just shade the area with a thick black cloth for about 2 weeks or just hand pull them up.
I enjoyed watching your video. I can't wait to have a butterfly garden. I won't even mind the bees. Birds will be a bonus. Thank you.
ByHisGrace87 great inspiration .👍👍💐💐💐 . Have u started ? Trust me it will be great. Will love to see your videos of ur garden. living with the nature is true life. Since 2005 i have created butterfly garden in my home. It gives immense pleasure to see them and shooting photos and videos . Happy butterflying.
I live in Florida. Today is the 14th of January. This morning I counted five different species of butterfly in my backyard.
Absolutely beauuutiful ! Time well spent - all the info the butterfly gardeners need to get started ! Thanks
Thank you for such a thought out and heart felt vid! I am also working towards kicking it up a notch! Keep going!
I only have half acre of property, I can’t do all that. I would love to but I just don’t have the space. So I chose to have milkweed and butterfly bush for monarchs and bumblebees. I have other bushes, trees, flowers and plants. It’s a lot of work just keeping the weeds away. Btw if i were a butterfly, I’d live in your garden. 😎
You can plant a butterfly garden in a single raised bed with a bundle of diverse plants to attract butterflies.
We need to lobby for responsible land management a fewer chemical pest in our communities! We can make a difference. The pics you showed of land clearing is so sad. Hurts my heart. Love the info in your video. Thank you!
Thanks SO MUCH for this video!! I grew up in the countryside and there were tons of butterflies. Now I’m living more in the city, so I’m so grateful to you for this super informative video! I’ve been getting a few more butterflies to my garden before this, by planting more flowers, but this video I can tell is going to help me immensely to kick my garden up a notch. You have no idea how thankful I am that you made this video!☺️💜✨🌈🌷🌻🦋
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Best ever ‼️👨🌾I enjoyed your music too and you have a good voice and explain well, clearly ‼️🎈🎈
How about laying a black tarp over the area for a couple of weeks, and forget the Round up?
@@yes Just paper bags and then cardboard over the grass with a mulch layer on top of the cardboard will kill the weeds, Then you just make holes in the carboard the following spring to plant your garden. The mulch stays on top of the cardboard layer and doesn't leech nitrogen away, all of the dead weeds will provide nitrogen for the years plants in your butterfly garden. The mulch will break down the following year as well to feed the garden and if you just continually add mulch year after year you will keep the weeds down and build up your soil/soil nutrition. This way pesticides won't be destroying your microbiology in the soil that makes your plants healthy, and you won't kill beneficial insects.
Or, just pull up the weeds n grass and mulch over it until you are ready to plant 😁
Actually clear plastic is a better solarizer than black plastic in my experience.
Try that on deep rooted Canada Thistle. It just comes up next door.
@@Canceriantigershark, I know you get it. I keep trying to teach this method to whomever will listen. Newspaper, cardboard, paper bags, then mulch on top. In a few years your garden soil is gold. And NO chemicals. Happy plants, and insects.
I wanted to thank you so much for putting together this outstanding video! It is *exactly* the information I need. I am doing my first butterfly garden here in SE Michigan and am in the middle of growing my native plants in the basement and preparing the garden right now. I'll use many of the ideas you presented. I'm finding the design part the most challenging.(what to put where). Can't thank you enough for your outstanding and super helpful video!
Grow the native plants that serve as food and shelter for caterpillars. The butterflies will come!❤️
This is a great video on butterflies. At first, I was worried about the time, however, I never noticed. Really good advice. Thank You for this video!
You made this video and care for your garden with an immense amount of love. Thank you so much for helping the butterfly population and helping others with this brilliant video who also want to help our butterflies. I also loved the narration and the music! Take care in those difficult times!
Nice video! I am an avid gardener and urban wildlife gardener and it nice to see guidelines for folks to really think out their butterfly garden.
I'd say you forgot, #4 it also adds to your spirituality . Beautiful video
this video was so soothing excellent narration
Sugar Creek Gardens in Kirkwood MO is a great place to find Milkweed and many other natural Missouri plants. I am just starting out as a Monarch Mamma and they were so very helpful.
More gardens need gardener's that garden, their garden, with great n' good, greativity. I'm Greatful for that.
Great Job! Butterflies are endangered and we need to do everything we can to save them. Fennell, dill and passiflora vines will greatly help. Use Vinegar and Baking Soda then add newspaper for 1-2 weeks - weeds gone -
They’re not endangered; they’re in danger. That is, the populations of some butterfly species are plummeting.
Thank you for this informative video !!! I love it except for the Roundup part. You can sheet mulch by covering your lawn/weeds with recycled flattened cardboard boxes, add adequate organic compost and wood chip mulch on top. In half a year or so, your grass below the cardboard will die without use of toxic chemicals.
Since u did this, do u have to pull up the old box you've laid in before or just let it become compost?
The boxes deteriorate, and I find that the worms love them!
Hi 80s Pilot, I use boxes that do not have plastic (I remove all plastic tapes, wraps) and also no colorful dyes (I pick plain boxes with black ink dyes or cut out the glossy colorful prints, if any, on the boxes), I do not remove the boxes that I use for sheet mulching. Once, I lay those sheets down to kill the weeds, I let the boxes compost into soil by a few months. As Mellisa K above say, I do notice earthworms love to congregate by the old cardboard. Easy and organic solution. Look up "Sheet mulching" on youtube for this easy method.
BTW most dyes today are required to be vegetable based. So as long as the box is just plain cardboard with no plastic coating you can use it.
11th Commandment. DON'T USE ROUND UP OR ANY OTHER CHEMICAL IN A BUTTERFLY GARDEN!!!!!!!! OR ANY GARDEN FOR THAT MATTER.
Wasn’t that #4?
@@teambeining - 👍Yes. He said don’t use pesticides.
I agree! Roundup??? No bueno for the butterflies, pets or humans! 😢
I loved your video. The only thing is please take out the mentioning of roundup.😢 Thanks
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Wow just wow, so thorough yet so off the mark with the round up
Fantastically helpful video. I already had it on my mind to do something in a small piece of communal garden area where I live but I will definitely be expanding on that with something a bit more ambitious as a direct result of your video. Thank you very much.
Love this video!! Watched every bit of it and learned a lot... Thank you for the great information! :)
you were able to watch this entire video without poking out your eardrums with an icepick or slitting your wrists?
Awesome!!! Very informative I just purchased my butterfly bush😍 Thank you for sharing
A very informative and helpful video! And yes, your note in the description is good advice. There are safe and easy chemical-free ways to stop weeds and grass.
Thank you tom for sharing I loved butterflies
GREAT VIDEO TOM ! loved watching all i too love good people around me,beautiful flowers and butterflies you got experience and you guided well.. i wont use pesticides i may have used before for keeping plant save from ants but now i wont use .. great video
I had an interesting thing happen, I saved a seedling of Black Willow, a native Californian riparian tree/shrub that sprouted in the wrong place. While it was sitting in a pot, waiting to be planted, I noticed some caterpillars feeding on the leaves. I had not seen them before so I looked them up on line and discovered them to be White Admirals! There are four on this plant now. I have a black willow on another part of my property and when it flowers it is covered by more different types of bees and wasps than I've ever seen in one place. The black willow may not look like much, but it seems like one of the best wildlife plants ever.
Never use Round up. There are better natural solutions
This is a fantastic video, interesting, funny & informative. My only reservation about it is that you are promoting Round Up. Perhaps you are not entirely informed or like most people believe the lies industry tells you, but you really should look into the safety of using this product. It has been banned from use in our city, unfortunately it is still being sold in stores- it is a dangerous chemical and is backed by the likes of Monsanto. If you want to keep it green, use vinegar & hard work.
Roundup is so toxic.
Awesome video, never thought so much about butterflies before, just thought about them when I pried them out the the grill of my pickup. We must provide them habitat as they are gods creatures like everyone else and this world needs them to be with us.
This was AWESOME you helped so.much!
Please ignore the part where he suggests to use Roundup.
It can increase your chances of getting cancer!
Very beautiful garden
My GOAL in life is : To surround myself with beautiful people, beautiful flowers, beautiful butterflies and beautiful girls. I'm with you , man.
Roundup?! Egads! Work for Monsanto, do you? No harmful chemicals- ever. Especially Roundup.
I truly enjoyed the video, ty
I agree 100%❤ your views
Actually it is the importance of butterfly caterpillars to birds to feed their babies. 97% of birds have to have caterpillars to feed their babies. It’s nice that butterflies are beautiful. Flowers are beautiful, and birds are beautiful.
Thank you. I do not use any foreign substances or fertilizers. I dealt with slugs hunting slugmagedon all summer picking them off as not to harm anything but the slugs and snails destroying my plants. There were many more as my entire village fought them last year. I have lived at my current house for 6 years. This year being my 7th full season. I have several loved beds. I am one the believes in nature happens. I place my brush and grasses after winter has gone by the wayside. Our last frost in Chautauqua county NY normally May 15th
Wow! Great details except you spoiled it for me when you sited using round up! Newspapers works too for weed control or cardboard...then you aren’t contaminating your soil.
Friendly update: Butterfly bush is now considered noxious in most parts of U.S. Look for substitutes suitable to your area through extension servce or a butterfly club.
Buy non invasive species of it or regularly deadhead and keep I in a pot
Dame’s rocket is also considered invasive species. Use native species like phlox instead.
Thank you for sharing your video so informative
Great video and very inspiring. I look forward to all the advice your may have regarding my new found quest, which is to create a habitat for these wonderful insects.
Excellent video! Loved it! ❤️🥰
Watched most of it and learned some useful information. You lost me at around 35 when you suggested the use of RoundUp. 😱 Let’s please not poison the earth.
Another good Native plant Phacelia and Black Adder Agastache,
Lovely butterfly flowers
👍🤩😍🐛🦋Fantastic info. Thank you. 💝
Fantastic Post! Complete and just...wow.
I would add a commandment. GO NATIVE (plants) as much as possible. Many plants like the butterfly bush you suggested are invasive in some areas. Everyone should do themselves a favor and join their local native plant society. The axiom you should ALWAYS work from is Right Plant Right Place. If a plant is invasive, it most certainly is not the right plant!
New subscriber here😁
Great video thanks for the info! 🌸 🌼 🌻 🌞 🐤 🐣 🐥
Music drove me away. Bet the butterflies would hate it. Why not just a tranquil message? Round-up!!! Bloody hell.
music not too bad but not necessary. too much noise everywhere....for example Walmart.
butterflies likes calm people. Try to express it and avoid getting angry. This video is to help those who appreciate it.
C'mon, try and be supportive! (There are enough critics around these days who hide behind pseudonynyms).
Great video but the music is annoying and LOUD! I had to turn it off.
DO NOT USE ROUND UP. IT WILL KILL THE BEES AND BUTTERFLIES YOU ARE TRYING TO ATTRACT TO YOUR GARDEN.
snowangelz430 Better yet, keep Dandilions! They're some of the best food for pollinators.
It will also kill humans
Oaks, Willows and Prunus. Extremely productive host plants, depending on your region.
Sappington Farms Nursery is a good place to look for pollinator and native plants. Sappington Missouri
Tom, I love this.
I tried a butterfly garden 3 years ago, but I didn't do it quite right, although the 1st year was great. I'd love to get your advice for my area.
byedaway1 New butterfly gardens go thru growing pains as young host plants provide little to no shelter or food to larvae. They are sitting ducks to wasps and other predators. As your host plants and other plants in your garden grow and mature, you will soon have more cats and butterflies than there are predators to eat them all.
Patience. It is frustrating to see all your caterpillars disappear one by one, but it all balances out in the end.
It takes a couple of seasons for any butterfly garden to mature, depending upon how old your plants are when you purchase or collect them.
Danaus, in my case not having enough cats was NOT my problem... Lol... I had so many they completely destroyed my brand new garden. I would come home at lunch from work and I could watch up to three Monarchs hatching from chrysalises all over the yard (The most chrysalises I had at any one time was about 100... hanging mostly on my fence, but also on just about anything... even a shovel I leaned against the wall). I raised plants from seed and I must have planted about 800 plants from 21 different milkweed species. 95% or more died within 3 or 4 months of planting them, I think because every leaf and small stem was devoured. Some were 3 or 4 feet tall (the biggest ones) and they were stripped bare. I had a stick garden. The season for Monarchs here is Nov through Feb (I live next to an overwintering site) so I planted in mid March after the bulk had migrated north. I was hoping to have a great garden by the fall. Didn't work out!
very interesting... I wish I could grow a big butterfly garden!
You can in containers ☺️
11th Commandment:
Absolutely No Tropical Milkweed
Tom, quite a few of your flower choices are invasive--no matter what part of the U.S. Butterfly Bush, for example, has escaped into the wild and is wiping out natives. I had a few in my yard when I first moved in and they seeded like crazy. Took me all summer to get most of it. Moreover, they only provide food, not shelter or caterpillar habitat. Better to plant something with multiple functions. With that said, your program is wonderful.
Thanks !
Thank you so much Tom! Great video. I want to bring butterflies and bees to my garden.
A robin set up her nest in my bbq area. I bbq'd not knowing that she couldn't take the smoke. I now know but ALL birds left. The squirrels left too, what a benefit. Luckily I still have my Monarchs an yellow swallowtails.
Thank you for this video very informative
The bottom cause is Lawn care chemicals and fertilization!
Thanks for wonderful info. 😊🇨🇦
Very cool video....thanks you Sir.
Thank you! Very informative and helpful.
I thought this was a great, comprehensive video. I wish that you had also used the scientific names of plants rather than just the common names (sometimes only useful in local areas).
I absolutely disagree with using Roundup on the soil to get rid of the grass and weeds. It is poisonous and causes lots of chronic health issues. (There is new scientific literature available to support this). I also don't agree with tilling the garden. As an alternative you need to start months before you want to plant and start with sheet mulching. It is a natural, non-till easy way to get rid of the grass and weeds and in addition helps with simultaneous soil prep. Once you have the grass and weeds gone, then you can turn the soil by hand and get rid of rocks and roots and then mound your soil into the contours you want for the garden shape. We did this with our pollinator garden that is a 22' round garden with a walkway through the middle. We put down the sheet mulch (several layers of cardboard boxes from the bike or appliance store) in the fall with a layer of alpaca poo and leaves on top. By spring the area was free of weeds and the soil was fantastic and ready to prepare for planting. This garden bloomed beautifully the first fall (last year) and this spring is magnificent already (lots of bees and butterflies) and it is late April in Southern Oregon.
Amrita Cottrell great suggestion. To save nature , we have to attract more people to create such gardens. We must provide information in such way , so that everyone will understand easily and starts creating garden immediately. living with the nature is true life. Since 2005 i have created butterfly garden in my home. It gives immense pleasure to see them and shooting photos and videos . Happy butterflying.
Very informative. Thank you 😊
I am living at my parents home right now and have decided to change their courtyard. It already has great Illinois soil. It was done by a landscaper. Everything grows great there, but there are old bushes, lots of creeping myrtle. I am planning to include some herbs like hyssop, a blueberry bush, and possibly a clematis or other flowing vine. I may do a butterfly puddle or just a bird bath. I already have 4 hummingbird feeders hanging on the fence. My question is: will the plants do well in the myrtle groundcover or should I take it out. There is also some ajuga. Is it okay to include columbine and lupines. I love those.
Nancy L great. Happy butterflying.
Nature, the beauty
Greetings from Roseville Michigan,near Lake St.Clair,I burn alot of wood/compost weeds ect,would that work for fertilizer in my butterfly garden 🦋?
I have gulf fritillaries in my yard, and I didn't even what they are:-) I have this vine called passioflora foetida, and they have caterpillars in it, how was yours?
Like you said earlier in the video, avoid pesticides (including Roundup!) otherwise a great video and very useful! thanks!!!
You know how to tell when you have a successful butterfly garden? When you have to wave off at least three types of butterflies just get in your car, when your echinacea is eaten to stubs by caterpillars and you never quite see the orange flowers on your common milkweed because its constantly consumed. No worries with the thistle…what the butterflies don’t consume, the American Goldfinch will! My butterfly garden this year was epic and next year, even bigger!
You had me till apply "Round Up" > You cannot be SERIOUS...
Tons of info. Thank you.
Tom, I love butterflies but I am wondering if I plant a few host plants in my garden, will they eat the leaves of my other perennials and annuals or only that of the host plant? I sincerely do not have enough money to replace the perennials in my yard if the caterpillars kill them by eating up all of their leaves. Thanks!
The caterpillars will only eat the host plants that they are laid on.
If any host plants you are gonna add, related to another one that's already in your yard, then there is a chance that you would get caterpillars on those.
But a simple solution is just to move that caterpillars from that plant to the one you DO want the larvae to munch on.
Need some help. Recently bought 2 small rue plants. Swallowtails have already laid a lot of eggs on them and I am afraid the plants are not big enough to support all those caterpillars when they hatch. What can I do to help them can I buy anything to feed them from grocery store like parsley, carrot tops etc.? Do you have any suggestions? Thank you
very good coverage
All of the information in this video is useful.
Just avoid the part where he suggests using roundup as it has the potential of causing cancer and not only that, but its bad for the environment.
Turn to more natural methods of removing weeds such as covering the area with a dark and opaque tarp, or pulling the weeds and then mulching over it a little at a time if you don't have the patience or the time to do it all at once. Organic gardening is good for both the plants and the environment.
Also consider using containers to take advantage of small spaces that cant be dug up and planted in.
Like , very good video
Wow. You did a great job on this video. I learned so much.
3:35 Lower right hand egg: is that a Cuckoo or Cowbird egg?
I was trying to access your website, but for some reason I get another website that also is butterfly gardening.
Great video...music drove me nuts!
Can I use milky spore for Japanese beetles
1st commandment should be
ABSOLUTELY NO PESTICIDES!
That isn't confined to butterfly gardening, either.
Birds will only successfully breed in your yard if there are thousands of caterpillars in the immediate area, which requires lots of native plants, or at least several native trees like Oaks, which support hundreds of caterpillars. Look up Doug Tallamy.
Is less than 4-5hrs ok if we're at 6000ft above sea level (more UV)?
Commandments 1 - 9 1/2 was great! Right on. Then you used the dreaded word - "ROUNDUP". You know better. We all know better. Shame on you.
i agree round up is poison and is unnessesary! just dig the grass up lay cardboard and cover. leaves behind perfect soil
@@jewel.s.journey Not so ! I have bee hives and different kinds of butterflies, no problems.
Round up does its destructive work high up in the foodchain. There is NO reason whatsoever to use it.
He comments on RoundUp in the comments ... .
You didn't leave your link to your website 🙏