Category: Butterflies

  • Attracting Monarch Butterflies – Start Seeing Monarchs Day – First Saturday

    Attracting Monarch Butterflies – Start Seeing Monarchs Day – First Saturday

    Would you like tips for attracting monarch butterflies to your yard this year?  I’ve been seeing them in my garden for a few weeks now. The first Saturday in May is marked National Start Seeing Monarchs Day. What an appropriate national day for this time of the year!  This day was chosen to raise people’s […]

  • Attracting Butterflies – Tips to Attract Butterflies to your Yard Like a Magnet

    Attracting Butterflies – Tips to Attract Butterflies to your Yard Like a Magnet

    One of the biggest pleasures that my garden gives me is its ability for attracting butterflies to it.  With the right nectar plants, a garden can be swarming with these fluttering friends all season long. But it is not just the plants that attract butterflies. There are a few other things that you can do […]

  • Beech Creek Botanical Garden & Nature Preserve

    Beech Creek Botanical Garden & Nature Preserve

    Touring a botanical garden with children in tow can be a challenge. But this is not so with Beech Creek Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve. This delightful garden center seems tailor made for kids and is the perfect way to introduce them to flowers and nature! This delightful botanical garden is located in Alliance, Ohio and […]

  • Nectar plants for Swallowtail Butterflies

    Nectar plants for Swallowtail Butterflies

    These swallowtail nectar plants are great at attracting butterflies to your garden. They just can’t resist them! Nothing makes me smile more than going out into my garden and seeing swallowtail butterflies fluttering around.  Did you know that planting certain plants will make sure that you have these pretty visitors to your yard?  Swallowtail butterflies […]

  • The Garden Charmers Share their Favorite Facebook Pages

    The Garden Charmers Share their Favorite Facebook Pages

    Facebook has so many great pages devoted to gardening, but the way the site now shows the content of pages, it is sometimes hard for them to get seen on news feeds. Facebook is one of the most popular of the social media channels. I thought it would be fun for the Garden Charmers (a […]

  • Butterfly and Insect Photos by Gardening Cook Fan Tamara

    Butterfly and Insect Photos by Gardening Cook Fan Tamara

    I love to feature photos from some of the fans of my Facebook page. Today I’ll be featuring  the lovely butterfly and insect photos of a fan named Tamara. Fans of my Facebook page love to submit photos of their gardens and projects for me to consider for this website and The Facebook page – […]

  • Butterflies, Bugs, Bees and Other Garden Critters

    Butterflies, Bugs, Bees and Other Garden Critters

    We all know that gardens need bees for pollination but so many other garden insects will find their way into a garden too.  Just provide them with flowers and leaves, and they will seem to find us! There is nothing like wandering around in my garden and seeing the wildlife in the form of insects […]