Monarchs Arrive in Texas

The Monarch butterfly has left their wintering grounds in Mexico and are arrving in Texas. If you do not have milkweek do what you can to get some and set them out in your garden. They will need host plants for the next generation and will also need lots of flowers for nectar. We hope this will help. Other plants your garden should have are curled parsley for the black swallowtail and passion vines for the gulf fritirlary.

Hummingbird Migration

The hummingbird migration season starts February 3rd, 2010. For updates go to http://www.learner.org/jnorth/ . You can even participate by reporting your sightings. Are you prepared with clean feeders. It is time to check your yard for old feeders that need to be brought in to be cleaned and resupplied. We had a tough winter that killed a lot of our flowering plants the feeders will be a life-saver for our migrating friends.

More Visitors

Progress

3 Month Old Butterfly Garden

Sorry there have not been any Hummingbird photos for a while, been extremely busy with a new butterfly garden.

Visitors to our Garden

American Painted Lady, Funereal Duskywing, Emperor, Common Sulphur, Black Swallowtail, Gulf Fritillary , Common Buckeye, Janais Patch and our favorite female hummingbird. A wonderful day in our garden.

Adoption Photo

This young man adopted this lovely Monarch and is about to release it. What a thrill!