How I Got Started

I started Butterfly gardening many years ago. My yard has been a progression over the years, and has made many transformations. Twenty years ago I experienced Hurricane Andrew. My yard and house were destroyed. We decided not to replace the pool screening and open up the backyard and put in some landscaping. That was the official beginning of my love for gardening in South Florida. I added a beautiful water garden years ago, and have been adding host and larvae plants for pollinators, mostly for the butterfly, for as many years as I can remember. I had my yard certified as a Natural Habitat, through the National Wildlife Foundation. To have a natural habitat you need to provide and meet certain requirements: 1. Provide a food source, 2. Provide a water source, 3. Cover, 4. A place to raise young. I try not to use any pesticides in my yard. I vermicompost and recycle as many of my food scraps as possible. If I had more land I would have a huge compost bin to recycle all my yard cuttings. Basically, I try to lessen my carbon footprint on this earth. In my own little world or backyard I try to provide an ecosystem in my water garden, provide birdbaths, birdfeeders, hummingbird nectar sources, feeders, puddling areas, host plants and nectar plants for butterflies and other pollinators. I am hoping to raise everyone’s awareness of the importance of saving our Butterflies, Blooms & Bees. Without them our world and food source will be in trouble. I hope you all enjoy my journey. I am not a Master Gardener, or Master Beekeeper, an Entomologist, or Journalists. I am simply a Backyard Gardener who is trying to lessen her Carbon Footprint of this Earth.

I hope you enjoy my blogs.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Trip to Boston

I am exhausted as I have been moving my youngest son Drew into his new apartment for his second year of college. The weather in Boston was beautiful in the 60's during the night and high 70's and low 80's during the day. As usual being up north brought back so many memories of gardening as a youngster. Many flowering annuals were in bloom at this time of the year. I walked from the Copley Marriott towards my son’s apartment, which was about a twenty minute walk. As I passed through the beautiful Christian Science Center, there were some lovely gardens around the reflection pond filed with different lavenders, and echinchias . The Lavender flowers smelled delicious and were full of bees. It was very peaceful to walk through these gardens and pond. It would be a lovely place to sit and meditate on a beautiful fall day. I took some pictures of some local gardens as I walked through the streets of Boston. Somehow they just call to me and I am unable to pass them by without stopping and taking time to smell the roses as the saying goes, and a few pictures. Right outside my son’s apartment is a beautiful Rose of Sharon bush. The bees were numerous and enjoying the nectar that the tree provided. I am exhausted from moving my son into his apartment. We are not use to stairs in Miami and his apartment was on the 4th floor. My calves were so sore I could hardly walk for a couple of days. Even though I was exhausted and broke financially, I got my son settled into his apartment, and got to enjoy the northeast for a few days. Here are some pictures of my trip.

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