Reeny's Butterflies, Blooms, & Bees

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.

Friday, June 24, 2016

Guess who is going to be selling at the Pinecrest Farmer's Market??

I am so excited to announce that I have been accepted into the Pinecrest Farmers Market! This is a yearly farmers market located in the beautiful Pinecrest Gardens.

I will be there every Sunday starting this Sunday June 26th from 9-2pm!!!!!

You can visit the following link for additional information and location information:

http://www.greenmarketco-op.org/

Hope to see you there!

Sunday, April 24, 2016

I'll be back....

PLEASE NOTE: I will be out of town during the majority of the month of May due to the birth of my first granddaughter and will not be making any personal appearances
or shipping orders during this time.

I will continue to fulfill orders until I leave, and will update these notices when I know exact dates. Orders placed while I am out of town will be shipped as soon as possible upon my return.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to my awesome followers & customers... I'll get back to blogging and sending out your orders ASAP!

Thank you for your understanding.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Events Where You Can Find Me!!

Check out my events and locations page - you'll be able to plan your next visit to my booth so you can stock up on my delicious honey, wonderful soaps, beautiful candles and bath & body products in person! You can even pull up maps for your GPS right from my website to help you find me quickly and easily!

http://reenysbutterfliesbloomsandbees.weebly.com/events-in-…

Upcoming events include this Sunday: Earth Day at Pinecrest Farmer's Market and next week Wednesday at the Spring Bazaar... here is the flyer for the bazaar with more information!

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Brambleberry Soap Swap

I participated in a soap swap with Brambleberry. There were 100 participants. 10 soaps were randomly chosen in Ann Marie's box. Mine was one of them!!!!!!! It's the Honey Bee Love Soap!