My Butterfly Garden

One of my many things on my 100 things to do was to create a butterfly garden. We'll this summer I finally managed to get the beginnings of one in the front of our house. I had originally thought to do this in the backyard, but we don't have any really good viewing spots. This window is right off of the kitchen and is a perfect viewing spot not only for Doodlebug but the cats love it as well! I just love my little garden. We have been plentiful in caterpillars and butterflies and we even had a hummingbird come and partake!

My little garden complete with walk way. This month has been really hot and even though I have native plants and I have been watering and feeding, I have lost a couple of my nectar plants. So I will need to replace them. I also want to add a few hummingbird plants as well to attract them to our little garden!

This is a Black Swallowtail. One of the many different kinds of butterflies that we have seen at our garden. We see quite a bit of Monarchs, Viceroy and Cloudless Sulphur's!

It has just been a blast watching the activity in our little garden. Doodlebug has had a blast using her butterfly books to identify the differnt types that have come to play. I hope to continue to make it grow as I learn more about the plants and how to keep the containers healthy!