Monarch waystation

Garden Design Magazine on Instagram: “Create your own Monarch Waystation! 🦋 . Great layout from @ringerslandscaping. See more ideas for your garden in our regional gardening…”

We cannot approach the end of Pollinator Week without celebrating monarchs. Today’s post discusses their current status and recommends ways that you can help these iconic, but threatened, butterflies. #PollinatorWeek

The iconic Monarch butterfly! We all know them and love them, but how can we help them? Here's how I created a certified Monarch waystation on my property.

The iconic Monarch butterfly! We all know them and love them, but how can we help them? Here's how I created a certified Monarch waystation on my property.

Monarch Watch is a cooperative network of students, teachers, volunteers and researchers dedicated to the study of the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus and its spectacular fall migration.

Are you interested in raising monarchs at home? Butterflies are very important garden pollinators and the monarch butterfly population in particular has been rapidly declining for a number of years. Monarchs (and butterflies in general) really are the most remarkable creatures. The caterpillar has this incredible potential for transformation. They spend their days nourishing their

Five easy tips and techniques, results of a two-year study, for how to build and sustain a monarch butterfly's dream garden.

Monarch way station layout

Yes, you read that right: drought-tolerant monarch waystation. Unless I'm adding a new plant I never water my waystation. In fact, our outdoor water spicket has been broken for two years. I have rain barrels but I only use that sacred water for my veggies, my milkweed seedlings, and when I'm establishing a new plant in the garden. Last summer Ipswich, MA had a water ban for months and it seems like we're headed that way again this summer. I've been obsessively watching the radar and every…

Why are butterflies important for the environment? If you put post this issue to some kids who love to chase them. Those eager little hands would shoot up into the air and answers like “because they're beautiful”