This weekend, my husband worked hard (I supervised!) putting in our Monarch Butterfly waystation. The Loudoun Conservancy recently launched the Monarch Butterfly Campaign and we’re excited to be a part of it. We had a rose bush already in place, so we purchased two butterfly milkweed plants and three woodland sunflower plants from Hill House Farm & Nursery at the Rust Nature Sanctuary plant sale, and also a butterfly bush from Abernethy and Spencer Greenhouse in Purcelville where we also got our leaf mulch. These are all native plants to our area and all are grown pesticide-free – hoping this means it will be difficult to kill them, because we’re not known for our green thumbs in this house.
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| Shopping for plants. |
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| The layout. |
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| Breaking ground! |
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| Discovering worms. |
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| That awkward moment when your husband swings too hard and takes out part of your fence… |
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| Ready for phase two: planting. |
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| The final result. |
OK, it doesn’t look like much now, but eventually the plants will come in and we’ll have something really beautiful! Read more about the Monarch Butterfly Campaign here. I hope you’ll consider becoming a part of this endeavor no matter where you are.
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Rachel RichardHow fun! I bet this is going to be so pretty when the butterflies come. 😀