Happy Butterfly 

My observation is that this doesn't teach children the full story of butterflies.

It's hazardous and quite a gamble. Yet it's the ace for the win of a brilliant total make-over.

Being in nature decreases stress, makes you happier, increases creativity, improves attention spans, makes one more kind and generous and ma

Butterfly art is often made at the expense of the butterflies.

Florida has many beautiful native plants that can produce nectar and some are listed in this post. This is not a comprehensive list, but the

A female Monarch is not a Queen!

There are easy ways to replenish your Milkweed.

The garden is our classroom for life truths.

What do we do about aphids on our Milkweed?

With COVID-19 still lurking about, many of us are staying close to home these days. Time in the garden is soothing, refreshing and distra...

Considering a screened-in butterfly house?

It is spring and our butterfly gardens are coming alive. My landscape includes host plants for dozens of local species (that is nerd spea...

My first 40 years on earth did not exemplify serenity. I intend to change that for the next 40. My personality is assertive. Many people ...

When I first began my south Florida butterfly garden, I included a plant called a pipevine to attract a specific black and yellow swallow...

Some people collect plates, shot glasses, baseball cards or tchotchkes. I collect butterflies. I prefer the living kind (no judgement her...

This is a moth larva/caterpillar. I only know this through experience. In this picture it is eating my Desert Rose, but it is commonly ca...

You know butterflies drink from flowers. But, did you know they drink from lots of other stuff too? Some butterflies drink from rotting f...

Every morning I read in my garden with a cup of coffee. It stabilizes me and helps me meditate on the good things in life and the good th...