Loved hearing your story from your childhood. What a wonderful gift your dad gave you and now you share it with others. You've inspired me to plant a butterfly garden. Thank you!!
I’m from NJ also. In the 70’s my mother had us finding milkweed with Monarch eggs. We lived in Freehold at the time. We had an aquarium. It was absolutely wonderful and such a beautiful memory. I’ll never forget how she would walk around with them on her shoulder 😊. I’ve since moved to Alabama. This year I put in a butterfly garden in her memory.
I’ve been wanting to do this forever, I love your garden I grew up in the Bay Area next to the trains would save the butterflies from the street sweepers cause the milkweed would grow along the road , I live in Manteca it may be to hot but I’m going to try ,my goal is to be wild life habitat and butterfly garden certified thanks for the inspiration. !
Had some trouble hearing you when you were naming the plants, but enjoyed your enthusiasm and seeing what you had planted. Loved how they are all grouped together -- the natural look.
Love it...and thank you from Michigan ! I hope to find some caterpillars on my Lindera benzoin next year (Spicebush). Love that shrub. I pruned our Spicebush to look more like a tree...removed lower limbs when it was young. We tagged 41 monarchs this year from our yard in Zone 6 A. Thanks so much for your memories of finding milkweed along the railroad tracks. Great ideas.
We then consider this video helpful if we can get this plant added to anyones garden. You will not regret it. Check out more liatris species at Missouri Wildflower Nursery. Be careful, its addictive, lol
The lack of butterflies is concerning and it's happening everywhere. I live in the southeast and while I've never seen a monarch in my neighborhood, we used to get a LOT of Easter Tiger Swallowtails. They started getting fewer and fewer a couple of years ago (although I noticed a few more this past summer. Once thing I'm never short of is Gulf Fritillaries since I have passionflower growing everywhere and that's their host plant. I'm fairly sure that the decline in a lot of the butterfly population is caused by the continuing increase in average temperatures and the destruction of the woods and meadows around here so they can build more and more apartment complexes. Host plants are disappearing at an alarming rate.
Triple TigerLillies in the shade, 20 yrs? I have 40 blooms starting...next yr in the sun where the old iris rhizomes are...dug up mini iris's from shade, experimenting with the old iris in gravel puddles.
This is great and informative. I am trying to start a butterfly/bee friendly garden here in Denmark. It's very inspiring to see what we all can do to help. Common milkweed is invasive here, but we have butterfly plant, swamp milkeweed, hardy geraniums, agastache, cone flowers, salvie, coreopsis, rudbeckia, buddlia, flox, lythrum salicaria, blanket flowers...all for the bees and butterflies. I blame my dad. He kept hives. I am learning what the host plants for butterflies in Europe are. But, I use the monarch host plants because I know they are a quality food source for butterflies and bees.
CONGRATS on getting over 1,000 subscribers! Wish I had a yard, as I'd have the same king of planting like you or close to it! I rent a basement apartment so I depend on using pots for my milkweed and nectar plants as well as some vegetables also! Keep up the GREAT work and the postings! ;-)
Thank you for the kind words. And for what you are doing as well, container gardening even in a small space can be big deal to the bees and butterflies near you. A guy in Brooklyn in an apartment planted parsely and had Eastern Black Swallowtails! It does not matter how little, it matters if its there. Thank you for what you are doing.
Thank the good Lord I viewed your video today because I thought I was going crazy. The first food source that is available where I live in the spring (Toms River NJ) is a weed called creeping Charlie. It bloomed as usual this spring and the yard was alive with the usual bumble bees and honey bees. Then suddenly the bumblebees disappeared. I happened to go to Lowes and walked through their garden center and was astounded there were no pollinators all over the flowers like there usually was every year. Found a few honeybees working the creeping Charlie but only 1 bumblebee. The neighbor who lives behind sprays for ticks and mosquitoes and I am panicking what they are doing is affecting my pollinator population. However it sounds like the noticeable decrease in pollinators is not just affecting my area only. Could it also be because they were hit with very cold temperatures when they just emerging?
I found it interesting where you said your removed the milkweed but it comes back with fresh healthy leaves that is what the monarchs like. I have a milkweed/dogbane patch that I watch daily on my walk - it is down by the woods and each year seems just when the blooms are about ready to seed or have formed pods - a mystery as to who does it but It is gone...mowed down. In a couple of weeks it is right back up. I have been grieving over that happening but NOW, I am guessing perhaps a good thing? Thanks for taking the time to walk us all around your garden talking with us the entire time. Great video.
So glad you watched the video!!! Our common comes up in the lawn but if we reomove the shoots for food or simply mow it, it produces new shoots. We can do this several times during the summer to try and have fresh sprouts for females to lay eggs.
I love that you are in touch with nature. I think it’s very masculine, adventurous and intelligent for men to be a part of nature without shooting poor animals. You may help to turn the tide for the poor butterfly’s that seem to get fewer and fewer every year. I always try to have a couple of butterfly bushes and last year there were fewer butterflies than I’ve ever had. Thank you for the gardening information. Just started a butterfly garden this spring with milkweed plants. Your gardens are beautiful. Love your dog she’s lovely.
Those were very kind words. Had great parents and grandparents who allowed me to enjoy and understand the outdoors as a young kid. And after all this time, still a kid at heart
@@SKWildflowerRescueNursery It’s great to stay a kid at heart. Sounds like you had wonderful parents and grandparents. I was lucky in that way too. Keep up the great work.
Wow! I admire your care for the beneficial insects...butterflies and bees that you have provided them a great sanctuary garden! How I wish your my neighbor and I’ll be begging for seeds and other great perennials you have!
We are growing hundreds of plants in hopes of sellinng a few locally to fund my addiction of plants and donate to parks. Our neighbors all have garden deserts of over watered over fertilized, and insecticide laden lawns with no flowers. The latter people have given up on do to the deer though we use Liquid Deer Fence and are fine with the daily horde of deer. But last year I converted three neighbors. Only 200 to go, lol
It is early here in NE Ohio 2023 but I have never seen so few bees, insects, and butterflies. Our whole neighborhood uses poison on their yards and I think that is true most places in the USA. So sad.
There are less and less of those around the area these days thank god, but the loss of habitat and rampant deer populations who eat every host and nectar plant contribute greatly to habitat loss here in northern NJ these days and there is no sign this is letting up.
I just bought a house with 5 1/2 acres and about 1 acre is pure woods. I am looking into adding a butterfly garden next spring. I have already made massive flower gardens on the property already. Thanks for the info. I live in Ohio, so any tips and tricks would be great! Thanks so much
Ok first let me say JEALOUS! LOL. The basics of a Butterfly Garden are as much sun as possible, as sheltered from wind as possible. Then research the local butterfly species. That will let you know what host plants to add. Then surround them with native nectar plants. Many of the plants on some of our videos are perfect for your location.
How do you keep weeds under control in this type of garden? I would love to have one. Seems like I struggle with weeds taking over when I try to have something as natural looking as your butterfly garden. Love it!
Have they tested the sterile butterfly bushes with non-sterile butterfly bushes? Bradford pears were supposed to be sterile to until it was found the would produce with other pears as pollinators. Which if the same is for the sterile butterfly bushes then still could be a problem.
I didn't know you could pull milkweed up from the lawn without all the root and it would grow. I thought the rhizomes they have as roots meant that if severed from the root they died. I tried translaplatingn from the lawn into a container and all died so I gave up. Does it really work? any chance you could make a video on this?
Your sweet puppy will smell sweet as can be, naturally, if you feed her real food (no canned or kibble, no commercially produced dog food at all). As you've probably noticed, baths don't really make a difference at all, only lasts as long as the perfumes they put in it. The problem is coming from inside, in her gut, from all the unnatural junk and unhealthy food they put in commercial dog foods. Dogs also need their own kind of real food -- they don't get healthy as they should if you feed them cooked human food - some of our food is really bad for them, some is actually poison. There's lots of info about what they need on the internet. Recommend you consult the work of Dr Ian Billinghurst first, vet and research biologist in Australia. He started the research into an all natural, real food diet for dogs, and later cats, in the 1980's and 90's. Your dog will be healthy as can be on his diet. All my dogs have thrived on his methods. A good natural multivit & mineral for dogs is important, too. Salmon oil from wild fish if you can get it. And even if you don't go for totally raw, a weekly raw meaty bone to chew on is really good for them (absolutely has to be raw -- cooked is dangerous). Good luck! You won't believe how full of energy and joy your pup will be! It takes some effort, but it is totally worth it. 💚🐾
Unfortunately this time of year we have used all of the seeds. We are greatly expanding our gardens this year and thinking of starting our Backyard Nursery again. Hope to have a large seed collection in process for the coming year.
We love love this milkweed but it is hard to get seed pods and this year a single pod survived to maturity. We split some rhizomes and tossed out some seed from 2019 into the garden and by the end of last year had more growing in other locations. We hope this all triples in size this coming year so we can collect seeds and offer some. But this guy is a tough nut to crack and most online sights sell out in late Spring. We are on the hunt for a possibly even more sought after milkweed, Red Ring. Our hope is to get this growing to it can be available asap.
We had a Monarch show last week. First time ever in May, normally July. Then we just had a Mourning Cloak lay eggs and saw a Spicebush on Sat. i am guessing the hot weather here in NJ will bring them out here at least
Hi just subscribe i live in florida...people thinks a lot grow here but i leave more towards sryma beach and the we have lots of sand LOl.... could i have a butterfly garden
Thank you so much for subscribing. You can see if you have a native plant society or local Aububon society as they will be a good source to assist in plant selection for your specific area. Its a great thing to do and so many critters depend on people like you to add beneficial plants to their gardens to replace lost habitat
Loved hearing your story from your childhood. What a wonderful gift your dad gave you and now you share it with others. You've inspired me to plant a butterfly garden. Thank you!!
I'm 75 and still chase butterflies and plan to do so as long as I can
I’m from NJ also. In the 70’s my mother had us finding milkweed with Monarch eggs. We lived in Freehold at the time. We had an aquarium. It was absolutely wonderful and such a beautiful memory. I’ll never forget how she would walk around with them on her shoulder 😊. I’ve since moved to Alabama. This year I put in a butterfly garden in her memory.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful story and flowers! Your videos inspire me to buy more native plants! 😊💖🦋🌸🐝👋
I'm just getting started trying to save as many as I can 😊
I would love to see a recreation of your dad's butterfly cage! What a wonderful Dad and bonding experience 🦋🦋🦋
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Hi Jersey girl
This is awesome!
We are so happy you liked the video. So much more coming this year as the garden is really exploding this year
I’ve been wanting to do this forever, I love your garden I grew up in the Bay Area next to the trains would save the butterflies from the street sweepers cause the milkweed would grow along the road , I live in Manteca it may be to hot but I’m going to try ,my goal is to be wild life habitat and butterfly garden certified thanks for the inspiration. !
Had some trouble hearing you when you were naming the plants, but enjoyed your enthusiasm and seeing what you had planted. Loved how they are all grouped together -- the natural look.
Love it...and thank you from Michigan ! I hope to find some caterpillars on my Lindera benzoin next year (Spicebush). Love that shrub. I pruned our Spicebush to look more like a tree...removed lower limbs when it was young. We tagged 41 monarchs this year from our yard in Zone 6 A. Thanks so much for your memories of finding milkweed along the railroad tracks. Great ideas.
We still have 6 Monarchs to go, too late I think they may have to spend Winter in Greenhouse.
Adding liatris to my garden because of you. I love how it looks with the cone flowers.
We then consider this video helpful if we can get this plant added to anyones garden. You will not regret it. Check out more liatris species at Missouri Wildflower Nursery. Be careful, its addictive, lol
Awesome possum.Love it!
I want to plant a butterfly garden this year. My garden center says in this area we don't plant enough borage.
Very good video! Lots to learn! Thank you!
Thank you so much, we hope to share a lot more through the rest of the year.
The lack of butterflies is concerning and it's happening everywhere. I live in the southeast and while I've never seen a monarch in my neighborhood, we used to get a LOT of Easter Tiger Swallowtails. They started getting fewer and fewer a couple of years ago (although I noticed a few more this past summer. Once thing I'm never short of is Gulf Fritillaries since I have passionflower growing everywhere and that's their host plant. I'm fairly sure that the decline in a lot of the butterfly population is caused by the continuing increase in average temperatures and the destruction of the woods and meadows around here so they can build more and more apartment complexes. Host plants are disappearing at an alarming rate.
I'm 59, Got The Bug Late, learning every day...❤🙏❤🇺🇸❤
But at 59, this will make you feel like a kid again! You are going to have a great time
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Triple TigerLillies in the shade, 20 yrs? I have 40 blooms starting...next yr in the sun where the old iris rhizomes are...dug up mini iris's from shade, experimenting with the old iris in gravel puddles.
I'm just now at 47 getting into it.
This is great and informative. I am trying to start a butterfly/bee friendly garden here in Denmark. It's very inspiring to see what we all can do to help. Common milkweed is invasive here, but we have butterfly plant, swamp milkeweed, hardy geraniums, agastache, cone flowers, salvie, coreopsis, rudbeckia, buddlia, flox, lythrum salicaria, blanket flowers...all for the bees and butterflies. I blame my dad. He kept hives. I am learning what the host plants for butterflies in Europe are. But, I use the monarch host plants because I know they are a quality food source for butterflies and bees.
This is fantastic, sir. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
CONGRATS on getting over 1,000 subscribers! Wish I had a yard, as I'd have the same king of planting like you or close to it! I rent a basement apartment so I depend on using pots for my milkweed and nectar plants as well as some vegetables also! Keep up the GREAT work and the postings! ;-)
Thank you for the kind words. And for what you are doing as well, container gardening even in a small space can be big deal to the bees and butterflies near you. A guy in Brooklyn in an apartment planted parsely and had Eastern Black Swallowtails! It does not matter how little, it matters if its there. Thank you for what you are doing.
Thank the good Lord I viewed your video today because I thought I was going crazy. The first food source that is available where I live in the spring (Toms River NJ) is a weed called creeping Charlie. It bloomed as usual this spring and the yard was alive with the usual bumble bees and honey bees. Then suddenly the bumblebees disappeared. I happened to go to Lowes and walked through their garden center and was astounded there were no pollinators all over the flowers like there usually was every year. Found a few honeybees working the creeping Charlie but only 1 bumblebee. The neighbor who lives behind sprays for ticks and mosquitoes and I am panicking what they are doing is affecting my pollinator population. However it sounds like the noticeable decrease in pollinators is not just affecting my area only. Could it also be because they were hit with very cold temperatures when they just emerging?
Loved it! I had my first monarch of the season today on my molkweed. Baltimore Co. MD
We cannot wait until we see them here in northern NJ.
We just had our first Monarch today!!!!!
Nice gardens. You have me some ideas
Oh thank you so much, the reason we created our little channel was to do just this, inspire and provide ideas.
I found it interesting where you said your removed the milkweed but it comes back with fresh healthy leaves that is what the monarchs like. I have a milkweed/dogbane patch that I watch daily on my walk - it is down by the woods and each year seems just when the blooms are about ready to seed or have formed pods - a mystery as to who does it but It is gone...mowed down. In a couple of weeks it is right back up. I have been grieving over that happening but NOW, I am guessing perhaps a good thing? Thanks for taking the time to walk us all around your garden talking with us the entire time. Great video.
So glad you watched the video!!! Our common comes up in the lawn but if we reomove the shoots for food or simply mow it, it produces new shoots. We can do this several times during the summer to try and have fresh sprouts for females to lay eggs.
Spice bush tree? So beautiful.
Beautiful!! So inspiring!! My garden is not that big ,,,, yet !
You r so awesome! You have a lot of plants for pollinators. I love it!
And even more being added this year. Big big garden expansions in 2021
Love butterflies and gardens. I have a butterfly garden in my firing yard and wish I had common milkweed. Hard to find around here
I love that you are in touch with nature. I think it’s very masculine, adventurous and intelligent for men to be a part of nature without shooting poor animals. You may help to turn the tide for the poor butterfly’s that seem to get fewer and fewer every year. I always try to have a couple of butterfly bushes and last year there were fewer butterflies than I’ve ever had. Thank you for the gardening information. Just started a butterfly garden this spring with milkweed plants. Your gardens are beautiful. Love your dog she’s lovely.
Those were very kind words. Had great parents and grandparents who allowed me to enjoy and understand the outdoors as a young kid. And after all this time, still a kid at heart
@@SKWildflowerRescueNursery
It’s great to stay a kid at heart. Sounds like you had wonderful parents and grandparents. I was lucky in that way too. Keep up the great work.
Wow! I admire your care for the beneficial insects...butterflies and bees that you have provided them a great sanctuary garden! How I wish your my neighbor and I’ll be begging for seeds and other great perennials you have!
We are growing hundreds of plants in hopes of sellinng a few locally to fund my addiction of plants and donate to parks. Our neighbors all have garden deserts of over watered over fertilized, and insecticide laden lawns with no flowers. The latter people have given up on do to the deer though we use Liquid Deer Fence and are fine with the daily horde of deer. But last year I converted three neighbors. Only 200 to go, lol
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And one correction; Mexican people ALWAYS knew the Monarchs overwintering site!
You have a beautiful garden. I would love to buy some milkweed seed from you.
Thank you for the kind words.
It is early here in NE Ohio 2023 but I have never seen so few bees, insects, and butterflies. Our whole neighborhood uses poison on their yards and I think that is true most places in the USA. So sad.
2022 in Wisconsin have one Monarch show up this year at the neighbors house. Nothing else in the area. Not normal. Don't know what happened.
Pesticides and mosquito lawn spray companies are the culprit to your butterfly loss. Shameful. Thanks for sharing
There are less and less of those around the area these days thank god, but the loss of habitat and rampant deer populations who eat every host and nectar plant contribute greatly to habitat loss here in northern NJ these days and there is no sign this is letting up.
Thanks so much. Lovely garden. Too bad your neighbours aren’t the same.
That's true!
If and when you have extra seed, I’d love to put some in my garden here in Long Island
We are trying to propogate and gather seed this year hoping to start our little backyard nursery again. stay tuned
I just bought a house with 5 1/2 acres and about 1 acre is pure woods. I am looking into adding a butterfly garden next spring. I have already made massive flower gardens on the property already. Thanks for the info. I live in Ohio, so any tips and tricks would be great! Thanks so much
Ok first let me say JEALOUS! LOL. The basics of a Butterfly Garden are as much sun as possible, as sheltered from wind as possible. Then research the local butterfly species. That will let you know what host plants to add. Then surround them with native nectar plants. Many of the plants on some of our videos are perfect for your location.
How do you keep weeds under control in this type of garden? I would love to have one. Seems like I struggle with weeds taking over when I try to have something as natural looking as your butterfly garden. Love it!
The dense growth keeps ut most weeds but we still have to check now and then and remove by hand
Have they tested the sterile butterfly bushes with non-sterile butterfly bushes? Bradford pears were supposed to be sterile to until it was found the would produce with other pears as pollinators. Which if the same is for the sterile butterfly bushes then still could be a problem.
Here is an interesting article, garden.org/learn/articles/view/3849/
I didn't know you could pull milkweed up from the lawn without all the root and it would grow. I thought the rhizomes they have as roots meant that if severed from the root they died. I tried translaplatingn from the lawn into a container and all died so I gave up. Does it really work? any chance you could make a video on this?
How do you convince the construction company to let you take plants?
Your sweet puppy will smell sweet as can be, naturally, if you feed her real food (no canned or kibble, no commercially produced dog food at all). As you've probably noticed, baths don't really make a difference at all, only lasts as long as the perfumes they put in it.
The problem is coming from inside, in her gut, from all the unnatural junk and unhealthy food they put in commercial dog foods. Dogs also need their own kind of real food -- they don't get healthy as they should if you feed them cooked human food - some of our food is really bad for them, some is actually poison. There's lots of info about what they need on the internet. Recommend you consult the work of Dr Ian Billinghurst first, vet and research biologist in Australia. He started the research into an all natural, real food diet for dogs, and later cats, in the 1980's and 90's. Your dog will be healthy as can be on his diet. All my dogs have thrived on his methods. A good natural multivit & mineral for dogs is important, too. Salmon oil from wild fish if you can get it. And even if you don't go for totally raw, a weekly raw meaty bone to chew on is really good for them (absolutely has to be raw -- cooked is dangerous). Good luck! You won't believe how full of energy and joy your pup will be! It takes some effort, but it is totally worth it.
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No way you’re 63 years old
No that is too old, 61! LOL
Hello, you have a beautiful garden!! I'm interested in getting seeds.
Unfortunately this time of year we have used all of the seeds. We are greatly expanding our gardens this year and thinking of starting our Backyard Nursery again. Hope to have a large seed collection in process for the coming year.
How do i get some of your purple milkweed seeds
We love love this milkweed but it is hard to get seed pods and this year a single pod survived to maturity. We split some rhizomes and tossed out some seed from 2019 into the garden and by the end of last year had more growing in other locations. We hope this all triples in size this coming year so we can collect seeds and offer some. But this guy is a tough nut to crack and most online sights sell out in late Spring. We are on the hunt for a possibly even more sought after milkweed, Red Ring. Our hope is to get this growing to it can be available asap.
Where are the butterflies?
We had a Monarch show last week. First time ever in May, normally July. Then we just had a Mourning Cloak lay eggs and saw a Spicebush on Sat. i am guessing the hot weather here in NJ will bring them out here at least
Hi just subscribe i live in florida...people thinks a lot grow here but i leave more towards sryma beach and the we have lots of sand LOl.... could i have a butterfly garden
Thank you so much for subscribing. You can see if you have a native plant society or local Aububon society as they will be a good source to assist in plant selection for your specific area. Its a great thing to do and so many critters depend on people like you to add beneficial plants to their gardens to replace lost habitat