Mar 23 2010
My Butterfly Garden
my old butterfly garden
I started my butterfly garden the first year after we bought our home. In the five years we’ve been here, my butterfly garden has gone through many changes. It continues to evolve as I learn which plants work best for the butterflies and looks best to me.
My goal is to build my butterfly garden in such a way that both the butterflies and others will want to spend time there. I want my butterfly garden to have a plan and a design that will please both the butterflies and myself.
At first I just planted a couple of butterfly bushes and scattered the “instant butterfly garden in a can” seeds around and waited for the flowers. That didn’t work too well. My butterfly garden was soon overgrown with weeds, I had a few nice plants, but all the other plants distracted from them. I ended up with a weedy patch of ground. The butterflies seemed happy enough, but I was not satisfied at all!
Over the years I kept waiting for the good plants to fill in and straighten my butterfly garden out. Unfortunately, that did not happen. I have decided to take matters into my own hands, and redesign my butterfly garden this spring. I want a more formal layout in my butterfly garden. The area I have for my butterfly garden is triangular and I have a honeysuckle vine at the very tip that is growing up a shepard’s hook. I am going to keep this feature and the “gazing ball” in the center of my butterfly garden.
The rest of the plants will be dug up and replanted into some kind of design. I plan to have small walkways around inside of the triangle; so I can get to the individual beds, and make sure that the weeds don’t get a head start again.
I am very excited by the prospect of a do-over and correcting the mistakes I made the first time around. I will keep you updated as I get my butterfly garden worked out, and replanted. I have already been saving seed from my favorite butterfly flowers, and I have also purchased more flower seeds to start early this year. My butterfly garden is going to take a lot of work to be as I see it in my mind; but I think it will be well worth any aching joints, or blisters I may get!
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