Hummingbird Hullaballoo!

Dad got me a hummingbird feeder a few months ago. We put it up, and the hummingbirds are just CRAZY! Every day we watch them fight each other just so they could get a drink. Mom says they could get more eating done if they'd stop fighting!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that's true, but it's never going to change.

Butterfly Garden Update: Black Eyed Susans, Pollination

My butterfly garden now has a few black eyed susan (rudbeckia hirta) flowers coming on. I saw bees pollinating them one day, so that means they will produce more black eyed susans later! Black eyed susans are my grandmother's favorite flowers. Also, we have dill on its way.
My zinnias are doing very well and one whole side of my garden is already covered with zinnias, both high and low!
One day, I saw two variegated frittilary butterflies come to my garden! I quietly watched as one of them came to around 24/30 of the zinnias. I saw bees pollinating the zinnias, too, and I'm already wondering if the flowers in our butterfly garden will just make it and produce pretty new zinnias and black eyed susans.

Beautiful Butterflies: My Butterfly Garden

I have my own little butterfly garden with sweet alyssum, african daisies, sunflowers, purple coneflowers, zinnias, dill, sage, and rosemary (and chicken wire because the dog dug up the first one). Some of the zinnias have already opened up. Already a few butterflies have come to the opening sweet alyssum (carpet of snow) and who knows what else? As more and more butterflies hear about it, it will get busier and busier... and who knows what will happen?

Plants From the Garden

Mom and I just went to our garden and picked yellow squash, cucumbers, peas, green beans, and lettuce. We found a caterpillar among the peas. We googled it and found out it was a yellow bear caterpillar. I first thought it was a woolly bear caterpillar, which turns into a white moth with black spots. A few of them came into our house. I can't wait to watch the caterpillar transform into a butterfly! We put it in our butterfly habitat with a piece of lettuce. We tried to take some pictures, but they didn't come out clearly, so we found one off google. Nature is so amazing!