Mother Earth's Garden

Some of my favorite flowers and plants are actually considered weeds. I love the lacy Queen Anne’s Lace. It’s one of my favorite flowers to press, and to use for fresh flower arrangements this time of year.

I’m also a big fan of milkweed, because they attract butterflies to my garden, and their seed pods are great for crafting and dried flower arrangements.
I also like to use many of the grass seed heads that grow wild in our pasture for flower arrangements.
Some of my other favorite wildflowers include:

Chicory
Black Eyed Susans
Wild Phlox
Bergamot
Thistles
Yarrow
Butterfly Weed

There are many more weeds and …read more

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My son went to a summer nature camp every day this last week, and on Friday I went with him. We had a great time hiking through the woods and meadows, enjoying Mother Nature’s garden. I thought I’d share a few images with you of the flowers in the meadow.
Some of our walk was through the woods, and down around a small pond. Check out the milkweeds. It always makes me happy to see milkweed pods, I know it makes the butterflies happy too.

Here was the first butterfly we saw.

And a few more beautiful flowers.

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I love seeing butterflies in my garden all through the summer. We have a bike path near our home that’s loaded with Monarch Butterflies in the early fall. I love taking a walk and watching them float from flower to flower.
One of the most important plants for the Monarch is the milkweed plant.
If you want to have Monarch Butterflies in your garden plant milkweed. It is the native host for Monarchs, they lay their eggs on the leaves and stems. It’s said the butterflies can smell the milkweed plant from over a mile away.
Where can you find milkweed plants? Annie’s …read more

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