Gardening for butterflies in Tim’s Ohio garden

Day 2 in Tim Vojt ’s Columbus , Ohio , garden ! Today he says,“In gain to plant more flowers attractive to hummingbirds , I ’ve been focusing on sum plant to the garden that are food beginning for butterflies . Besides the nativeAsclepias syriaca , the giants among which I am standing in the photo , I ’ve added several other specie of silkweed to attract Monarch butterfly stroke . This is the first yr that I ’ve meet with success : there were several batches of Monarch caterpillars . I also found dill weed , bronze finocchio and Petroselinum crispum as food for thought plant for Black Swallowtail butterfly and had many , many caterpillars as well . I planted both flat leaf and curly depart parsley . The butterflies passed over the more attractive curly provide potpourri for the flavorless leaved . You ’ll have to take a really close look to see the Black Swallowtail chrysalis on the parsley exposure . I really wish the foliage of all of these plant in the garden , so I did n’t feel I had to sacrifice aesthetic so as to furnish food for hungry caterpillars . Of course , having a garden that attracts Caterpillar also attracts predatory insects and birdie . Many - a - caterpillar met its Creator before becoming a beautiful , winged wight . ”Gorgeous , Tim ! So interesting that the butterfly preferred the bland over the curly parsley – I prefer the curly ! By the way , the beard is search awesome ! * * * more exposure from Tim ’s garden tomorrow … .

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