Tag: butterfly garden
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Helping our Pollinators, Helping our Monarchs
We have had a few inquiries about what to do in light of the recent freeze. Short answer – we hope those plants have a chance to bounce back before the height of the migration in the coming weeks.
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Vines — Upwardly Mobile Elements in the Nectar Garden
Published in Welcome Home RGV, March 3, 2021 — Vines add vibrancy and variety to a garden . . . .
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More for Monarchs
by Diane Hall As I perused the list of sessions for the Virtual TMN Annual Conference, I was drawn like a monarch to milkweed when I saw the “Monarch Waystations for Texas” session by Carol Clark, Conservation Specialist for Monarch Watch and fellow Texas Master Naturalist. Having tagged monarchs in Iowa since 1999 and traveled…
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Build a Community Garden Together — Masks On
Welcome Home Winter Texan publication — Find the joy in building a community butterfly garden. Story and photos by Anita Westervelt
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Vines add color and vertical interest while attracting birds and butterflies
by Anita Westervelt, Texas Master Naturalist Several years ago, I dedicated a partially dead mesquite tree as a natural trellis for a native climbing milkweed (Funastrum cynanchoides). The vine travelled up the trunk, veered off in the appropriate direction and reached the highest branches by the second spring. Lovely globes of pink-edged white blooms peppered…
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Save the Monarch Butterfly – build a way-station
by Heidi Linnemann The Monarch butterflies we see in the Valley spend their winters in Mexico’s central mountain range and summers in our northern states. The Rio Grande Valley is an important stop during their journey. But Monarchs are in serious trouble. Their winter resting area is being lost due to deforestation. In the United…