A few weeks ago we had someone here who works at the University of Minnesota in the conservation area. Somehow the conversation went to gardens and the topic of monarch butterflies came up. We have always been tuned in to monarchs in all their stages. Leann used to bring the chrysalis(es)?? to school in the fall so students could watch the monarchs hatch. We loved the lilac and phlox seasons at our Minneapolis house because they would be full of monarchs, and last summer we even grew some milkweed plants to attract monarchs and other butterflies. The clumps of flowers on milkweeds smell SO sweet! And, no, those aren't monarchs shown there but some variety of fritillary.
And I love milkweed pods in the fall. We have a low, swampy area up in our back fields and it's full of milkweed plants in the fall.
So, hearing all this, he thought we'd be good candidates to get enrolled in the Monarch Watch program.
So, I've ordered the seed kit which contains packets of these seeds that attract monarchs. I didn't know there were THREE kinds of milkweeds!
Then we get our Monarch Waystation certified and wait for the snow and cold to go away and the fun to begin!
And they send us this cool metal sign to put up near our site.
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We took grandson Joe to the imax theater at the Ford Museum in Dearborn last summer to see the monarch movie. Quite fascinating.
Can't wait!
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