Maybe it has something to do with the upgrade I’m supposed to do.

I have some pictures of caterpillars, but they will have to wait until I get this sorted out.

Update: It seems to be ok now. It had something to do with how the pictures uploaded. I upgraded WP I don’t know if that is what fixed it or not.

The plant though is really nice. It blooms early in the year with nice pretty little yellow flowers. After they die off the plant is very short and make a sort of ground covering. It can get a bit aggressive with spreading around though. I started this patch of it with just one little plant maybe 3-4 years ago. There’s supposed to be mostly liatris in that area. It will be interesting if it still comes up and blooms well this year or not.

Here are the flowers from a distance:

Here a little closer up:

Here a much closer up picture of the flowers:

Here’s a close up:

I believe I have two different species - I need to check into this. You can see from this picture - the flowers of one are taller than the other:

Here you can see the leaves of one is bigger than the other too:

Smaller leaves:

I prefer the ones with bigger leaves, since the American Lady makes nests in them, I figure that would give them more to work with.

Here’s a picture from a distance where you can see them around the stepping stones:

We have been replacing our lawn with a native grass, meanwhile - since it hasn’t filled in all the way there are lots of violets growing there. And dandelions too - but they are also pretty.

So I went and took a look at what little milkweed is coming up so far. And guess what? I found eggs on my purple milkweed and whorled milkweed! Unfortunately, I just started pages on those 2 plants recently too, so I can’t give you much information about them yet.

Last year, I found the first Monarch eggs in my garden on the 24th - so its 2 days earlier this year! And on Earth Day too!

Here is a picture of the purple milkweed - its just barely sticking out of the ground. I can’t wait tilll it blooms - its my favorite milkweed flower! The eggs aren’t visible, they were on the other side.

On the whorled milkweed you might be able to make out the eggs if you click on the picture to see it bigger.

My butterfly garden is just starting to grow this year, but I do have a few pictures to share. None of butterflies though. I did see a sulfur today though - not sure what species and couple of days ago I saw a Red Admiral - earliest I think I’ve ever seen one!

Below is a Bird’s Foot Violet. I just started a regular page for this plant but don’t have much written on it - but its a native violet, and the flowers can be one of two different color patterns. This is the darker one.

Here is one of the other color pattern:

This is the area I have them planted in - I should get some more sometime:

I have more I could write today, but I was having some problems with the image upload and still need to fix this site in other ways, so I think I will stop for now.

If I can, I’ll start writing again on earthday - seems appropriate - which I think is this coming saturday.

Updated: I see that Earthday is actually Tuesday - I’ll resume posting here tomorrow then!