I'm so happy for you! What a perfect payoff for all your hard gardening work. I hope the fun continues. Can we see pictures of your gardens?

Martha

Here's a few from a couple days ago!

Thanks for sharing photos. Your garden is beautiful! Do you have milkweeds in your yard? That Monarch looks like a female, so she might have been laying eggs somewhere close. I'd be on the lookout for eggs that you could bring in to raise, if that sounds fun.

martha

congrats! so pretty. your feeder is gorgeous: I'm assuming the center is sponge with sugar water???

Thank you! Right now I have 4:1 sugar water, but I've heard gatorade is good too for minerals. And Martha, I have milkweeds....boy do I have milkweeds! It's like the book, "if you give a mousse a cookie"! If you plant a milkweed, then you get caterpillars, then you need more milkweed on and on. So I started collecting eggs this year and raising monarchs, and my milkweeds are getting a chance to grow this year! So fun!