Certified Butterfly Gardens
We are now officially certified butterfly gardens by the North American Butterfly Association wherein we provide resources to sustain butterflies and especially Monarch butterflies.
Butterflies need host plants and nectar plants. host plants are eaten by the caterpillars and nectar plants provide flowers for the adult butterfly to sip nectar from.
Butterflies also like to sip from shallow puddles of water, this is hard to do in hot Texas summers. We have special dimpled flat boulders that hold the rainwater. Our latest garden is being watered regularly until roots are established on the perennial plants.
We have tons of native milkweeds growing everywhere on our property, we transplanted some to these butterfly and pollinator gardens. We await the monarchs who love these milkweeds especially.