The Butterfly Garden

The Butterfly Garden wasn't planned as a butterfly garden. We have a too hot, too sunny place on the south side of the house, between us and our neighbor Bea, and nothing we planted there seemed to grow.

We got a xeriscape book from the city of Albuquerque in the mail a few years ago, and after we moved back from Florida, we went to Osuna nurseries to pick out some of the plants suggested in it. Full sun, drought tolerant --- and they seemed to like it back there.

Then the first spring after we planted, the butterflies came.

The Butterfly Garden
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Butterfly garden in August at dusk.
The hollyhocks are dying out and the grapevines are turning, but the morning glories are still going strong. Dusk, in August.
This was the sixth or seventh attempt at a garden, planted in the spring of 2001. There was kalanchoe in the whiskey barrel, but the plant didn't survive the winter. In front of the barrel is blue flax. Out of three plants, one survived the winter, but as illustrated in the next picture, may not survive this summer. Also planted: Texas sage, white cinquefoil, and sweet broom.
June 2002
The Butterfly Garden wasn't planned as a butterfly garden. We have a too hot, too sunny place on the south side of the house, between us and our neighbor Bea, and nothing we planted there seemed to grow. We got a xeriscape book from the city of Albuquerque in the mail a few years ago, and after we moved back from Florida, we went to Osuna nurseries to pick out some of the plants suggested in it. Full sun, drought tolerant --- and they seemed to like it back there. Then the first spring after we planted, the butterflies came.

This trumpet vine attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
	Last Update: September 2002