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Butterfly Garden: Swamp Milkweed (A. Incarnata)

  Why did I plant this? I planted this because it is a member of the Milkweed family, more specifically, Asclepiadaceae – the only family that the Monarch Butterfly will use to lay eggs. I spied...

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What’s Blooming

August’s colors in the butterfly garden include coneflowers, black-eyed susans and false aster ‘Jim Crockett.’ False aster ‘Jim Crockett.’ Purple coneflowers. This year the joe-pye weed has reached...

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Day 2 Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, Part 1

Meet Kanapaha Kermit! He will be gracing the Violet Fern garden with his presence just as soon as it warms up a bit – hopefully by watching over a small pond soon to be planned. I met KK at the …...

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