Butterfly Bush

A few weeks ago, on a whim, I purchased a butterfly bush for our back garden. Since we didn’t have a flower bed available, I dug out a spot in the vegetable garden for her. She grew beautifully, but unfortunately, she expanded across the entire bed (so our tomato and pepper plants looked a bit claustrophobic). This weekend, my hubby surprised me by suggested we visit the gardening center for stones and dirt so that we could build the butterfly bush her very own bed. Together we transported the stones (Annabelle rode atop the wagon full of bricks since we used her Radio Flyer), dug out the bed, split bricks, leveled the ground, and achieved a sturdy and pretty stone wall. We like the look of it so much that we are thinking of replacing the wooden slabs on the vegetable garden with stones and adding yet another stone bed to our backyard this coming Spring. Oooh, I almost can’t wait!

The best part about this whole project, though, is that our butterfly bush helps to contribute to the conservation of butterflies, since they have lost their natural habitat due to development and urbanization.