Abigail's Garden - Monarch Waystation #8346

We all have a HABITAT needs. We will see if our COVID cat, Nikki, likes the greens we are adding to hers. And it's a winter way to grow green things in Maine.......hopefully.

Alright, alright, alright.

Is anyone looking for a public service project? Lauren has been providing habitat and educating others in the Houston areas and beyond. Ideas? Samantha Domsalla

As far as I know this is our first documented Giant Swallowtail lifecycle in our gardens. I added Rue into the garden last year and then love it.

I finally got some much needed weeding done. And the native Texas grass patch in the middle of the beds got its first haircut. Thanks Jason Ellis.

I already have some Monarch caterpillars on my newly emerging milkweeds, but it looks like the migration is coming this way.

Here they come!
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Massive monarch butterfly migration has departed Mexico.

A pic from yesterday, the first day of Spring in Abigail's Garden.

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
~Abram L. Urban

They bloom for you.....Happy birthday, Abigail. We love you.

This is the weekend we've been working so hard for. I'll post pics from the Garden Oaks 2016 Home & Garden Tour to this page and update what's blooming in the garden. I can't wait to see what it is going to become.....we just need a little bit more sun to dry it out more for tomorrow and Sunday.

Abigail’s Garden is a residential garden that became more personal when the homeowner began butterfly gardening in remembrance of her lost twin daughter, Abigail. The owner’s background in wildlife and environmental sciences quickly led the butterfly garden to expand to wildscape gardening for all wildlife, with native and well adapted plants. By providing year-round, adequate and varied food, water, shelter and space, Abigail’s Garden attracts and supports an abundance of urban wildlife, all on a 1/3-acre lot. Abigail’s Garden has been through a major overhaul this past winter to better provide for the wildlife, and allows visitors to see that a wildscape garden can be thoughtfully designed, planted and maintained in a residential setting.

Alison FP, I need you come help me set one of these up.

When nurses garden...lol
Now, that is a drip irrigation system!

It will be interesting to see how the garden responds to the heavy rainfalls from overnight and today. I'm most worried about the walkways.

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