Monarch Butterfly Garden- Bring Home the Butterflies

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How to Start a Monarch Butterfly Garden that Brings Home the Butterflies…and Caterpillars

March 12 By Tony Gomez

Starting a monarch butterfly garden is an exciting journey that yields great rewards if you're patient and persistent. Start with these basics, and then expand/improve over time to attract and support more monarchs than you ever dreamed.

How to create a butterfly garden that attracts and supports monarch butterflies and their kids…

Grow Potted Trees as Butterfly Host Plants

October 26 By Tony Gomez

Potted Trees for Butterfly Host Plants- How to protect container plants from Old Man Winter

Think your yard or garden is too small to plant host trees for caterpillars? Think ‘inside’ the box…

Aristolochia Gigantea : A Death Sentence for Pipevine Swallowtails

April 21 By Tony Gomez

Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar on a native pipevine plant

8 Pipevine Species that are NOT toxic to baby Pipevine Caterpillars…

Adventures in Raising the Giant Swallowtail Butterfly

September 28 By Tony Gomez

How to Raise Giant Swallowtail Butterflies for Release back to Nature

Our first experience raising giant swallowtail butterflies with lots of colorful photos + helpful raising tips

Adventures in Raising the Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly

July 2 By Tony Gomez

Raising eastern black swallowtails from tiny egg to beautiful butterfly with lots of colorful photos + helpful raising tips

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Save More Monarchs

The Butterfly Growing Kit is a monarch butterfly kit that includes a cage for raising butterflies, floral tubes for milkweed stem cuttings, and a digital book about how to raise monarch butterflies indoors. Get the tools you need for raising healthy monarch butterflies...

Monarch Butterfly Kits to Raise Caterpillars into Butterflies

25 Garden Variety Milkweeds

25+ Garden Variety Milkweed Plants- Ornamental Asclepias Asperula is a Stunning Milkweed Variety for the Butterfly Garden. It's also an important Host Plant and Nectar Source for Spring Monarch Butterflies.

25 Milkweed Plant Ideas for North American Butterfly Gardens


Butterfly Gift Ideas?

Monarch transformation pendants are glass blown butterfly jewelry created to look like real life monarch chrysalises.

Butterfly Gift Ideas for All Occasions

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