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How to Attract Monarch Butterflies to Your Garden

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Attracting Monarch Butterflies to Your Garden You too can have Monarch butterflies in your garden! Monarch butterflies are so beautiful and it's always a special treat when one comes fluttering through your yard.     Monarch Butterfly Fluttering Through my Garden  Don't you wish you could attract more Monarch butterflies to your garden? Well you can! Monarchs would come through my yard and land here and there and I always enjoyed their beauty and presence. Monarch Butterfly on Coreopsis Monarch Butterfly on Lantana                     I didn't realize I could have more beautiful Monarch butterflies in my garden and enjoy their presence and life cycle by adding one new item to my garden: The Milkweed Plant I have many plants in my garden that adult butterflies love to flutter to and enjoy nectar from, but I did not have Milkweed which is the only plant where an adult female butterfly will lay its eggs. But one day I...
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Butterflies Love Lantana - So Let's Grow it in the Garden

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Butterflies Love Lantana - So Let's Grow it in the Garden
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Gazania Daisies

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Gazania Daisies I love this bright beautiful gazania daisy perennial plant in my garden. I purchased a six pack of these flowers and only one survived the many snails and slugs in my garden. This was the one! Now all the many mounds I have in my garden of gazania daisies are from this one gorgeous mounding plant with long slender deep green leaves and bright orange-yellow flowers with a deep brown emphasis around the eye of the flower. These gazania daisies produce flowers through the spring well into autumn for me to enjoy. Since they are perennials they come back yearly to share their beauty. You can create more mounds of these beauties by dividing and transplanting, while they are dormant, from late fall through early spring. Gazania Daisies Love the Sun! 🌞 Sun Needs Gazania daisies, also referred to as treasure flowers and African daisies love the sun. My mounds of daisies get the sun from mid-morning to about four o'clock in the afternoon. When i...
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Reinforce an Old Patio Umbrella with a Fun Fabric

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Reinforce an Old Patio Umbrella with a Fun Fabric Check out my other website at Sewing Renovation for instructions with pics on how I added this fun Zebra print material to one of my favorite patio umbrellas that needed some reinforcement.
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Beauty of the Fuchsia

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Oh the Beauty of the Fuchsia Flower Graced in Delight Like a Dancing Ballerina Going To and Fro in Flight Such Beauty We've Been Given to Enjoy in Daylight! Beautiful Blooming Fuchsias In the Garden Through Summer When my sister and I were little we loved to pop the flower before it had bloomed. We were just trying to help it along. Fuchsias
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My Little Garden Tool Box

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My Little Garden Tool box I just love my little garden tool box where I can keep a few tools for my balcony and display this cute little box. My Uncle Harry had this box in his garage and used it to store his shoe polish and polishing brushes and cloths. I love using and displaying things my family once used. Since it is older it has required a little fix up and reinforcement. I used it for a number of years outside and from time to time I needed to keep it from falling apart. Come and see what it looked like before I recently reinforced it with glue and the original nails it came with. Garden Tool Box a Little Worn Out As you can see my box has fallen apart. It can be put back together again; it doesn't look like it here but all the pieces are in pretty good shape. The box legs have grooves for the sides to be placed in and the bottom board of the box is held in place by the sides and secured with the original nails that I still have. Putting the Box Back Together In the past when...
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