Today is National Learn About Butterflies Day
These Western Tiger Swallowtails are a joy to watch in the garden and they just love these Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William). A few ways to encourage butterflies to visit your garden are to provide a water source, plant plants they love (some examples include wooly sunflower, Canada goldenrod, and Douglas aster) and don’t clean up garden debris too soon (they often overwinter in chrysalis form)—wait till the temperature is consistently above 10C.
To learn more about these beautiful pollinators, you can visit The Butterflyway Project, a volunteer-led movement organized by the David Suzuki Foundation. https://davidsuzuki.org/take…/act-locally/butterflyway/…
