Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
Rebecca Nickols: ICU nurse, Master Gardener, wife, mother, friend…and now chicken farmer! I'm a contributing blogger about my new “backyard chicken experience” for Community Chickens, an on-line magazine from the publishers of Mother Earth News. At my southwest Missouri residence, I enjoy native butterfly gardening and photographing the wildlife visitors to my gardens in the Ozarks.. View my website, The Garden Roof Coop or follow me on twitter @gardenroofcoop
Who would imagine that the caterpillars in the photo below would eventually develop into Swallowtail butterflies with similar characteristics. The larva vary in color and range in appearance from stripes, spikes and intimidating false eyes… The adult butterflies, however, have less obvious differences–they’re basically black with a few distinguishing markings. Of course you can get into a very detailed identification of [...]
Native Common Blue Violets in my Missouri wildlife garden are considered an invasive, stubborn weed by most — including me. That is until recently I decided to have a new mindset… Violets are the host plant for the Great Spangled Fritillary, which is a common visitor to my butterfly garden. I realized that I’ve never [...]
As I’m writing this post, the temperature outside is freezing and it might be hard to imagine butterflies and warm weather, but this is the perfect time to consider what plants to add to your spring garden. Since I created my butterfly garden 8 years ago, I’ve tried to include as many of the host [...]
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