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How To Build A Successful Butterfly Garden Videos

texdr — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:07:23 +0000

I thought I would put together some brief videos on how to create a successful Butterfly Garden for my last day of vacation.

There are a total of 5 videos, each one is less than 2 minutes long. Watching these should give you a decent idea of how to start (or continue) a successful Butterfly Garden.

In this first video, I talk about how to buy Milkweed, what prices you should expect to pay (at least in Houston), how to tell if you have healthy Milkweed, and how to plant your Milkweed plants.

In this second video clip, I talk about the importance of having Nectar plants for your Butterfly Garden. I also show a brief clip of my Butterfly Enclosures.

By the way, some good nectar plants I recommend are Penta, Salvia, Purple Coneflower, Lantana, Butterfly Bush, and the Cigar Bush.

In this third video clip, I talk about some other Host Plants for your Butterfly Garden including, Pipevine, Fennel, and Citrus Trees.

In the fourth video clip, I talk about some additional Host Plants for Butterflies including Spicebush and Passion Vine, as well as what kinds of Butterflies you can expect to attract with the different Host Plants.

In this fifth and final video clip I talk about some additional Butterfly Gardening tools such as portable Butterfly Enclosures and long tweezers.

If you have any questions about these videos, where to buy plants or the additional Butterfly Gardening tools, just send me an email or leave a comment.

Hope you enjoy and it makes sense!

Hey Butthead!

texdr — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:15:56 +0000

Or at least that’s what the head of this Long Tailed Skipper looks like to me. Last year, not knowing what kind of caterpillar these were, I admit to, uh, removing them from my Bean plants. This year, I allow them to munch on as many Bean leaves as they wish. However, I can also see why some folks consider these caterpillars a pest as it doesn’t take them long to demolish the leaves.

Long Tailed Skipper

Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit

texdr — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:37:24 +0000

Actually the title has nothing to do with this post, I was just trying to think of something witty. I’ve never posted a picture of this next Butterfly because they are pretty hard to photograph. They bounce from leaf to leaf constantly. This little guy is known as a Long Tailed Skipper or Bean Leaf Roller Butterfly. You’ll never guess what their host plant is. It’s a…

wait for it…

Beans, or in the case of our garden, Green Beans.

We had these Butterflies last year but I didn’t know what they were at the time.

Long Tailed Skipper