Garden

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Jun 34 min read

Starting a Florida Butterfly Garden

You may know the formula for a successful butterfly habitat: host plants for local butterflies and nectar sources too

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Feb 206 min read

Discover the Joy of Labeling Plants in Your Personal Butterfly Botanical Garden

Visiting a botanical garden brings me profound joy. If you are reading this, you can probably relate. My all-time favorite in Florida is...

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Oct 4, 20233 min read

Top 5 Florida Butterflies

After having a butterfly garden in Florida for over 20 years, I have observed that certain butterflies are more common than others. For...

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Sep 17, 20224 min read

Insecticides and Emotionicides

The parallels between nature and life are everywhere. When we attempt to only allow the positive emotions, but eliminate the negative ones,

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Feb 4, 20223 min read

Why Aren't Butterflies Visiting My Garden?

Here are common reasons that you aren't seeing butterflies in your garden.

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Apr 12, 20213 min read

Big Butterfly Trees with Little Space

Once a gardener gets deeply entrenched in attracting butterflies , she may notice some spacial challenges. The plants her local...

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Jul 19, 20205 min read

Butterfly Gardens and Bees

Usually when people say they can't have a butterfly garden because they don't want bees, they are unaware of how butterfly habitats work.

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Jul 10, 20203 min read

Butterfly 101

Proper butterfly gardening should ALWAYS include a specified location because the same butterflies don't live everywhere.

Jessica Morgan McAtee

Jul 1, 20202 min read

Florida Native Butterfly Nectar

Florida has many beautiful native plants that can produce nectar and some are listed in this post. This is not a comprehensive list, but the

Jessica Morgan McAtee

May 13, 20203 min read

Aphid Afflictions

What do we do about aphids on our Milkweed?

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