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Butterfly Garden

Country Gardens magazine looking for butterfly gardeners

linda_centralokzn6

17 years ago

Greetings everyone!

Butterfly gardeners, you may have an opportunity to share the beauty in your

yard and inspire others to create butterfly habitat.

I am forwarding a request from Donna Talley, editor for Country Gardens

magazine. She is planning an article on butterfly gardening for her

magazine and is looking for gardens planted specifically to attract

butterflies that are located in residential, preferably rural, settings in

New York or adjacent NE states. She would like to photograph gardens in

late spring or early summer, 2007.

If you have a potential garden and are interested in helping with the

butterfly gardening article, please e-mail Donna at

donnatalley@earthlink.net

Please feel free to forward this message to other butterfly gardeners.

I think that we should ALL e-mail her, and encourage her to use representations from all over the U.S., as opposed to just limiting it to the N.E. She has no idea the depth of our knowledge base, or how far our range of butterfly gardeners are.

What do ya think?

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Comments (9)

emmayct
17 years ago
Linda, I completely agree.

While I would love to share with her since I'm in CT, my tiny backyard really precludes the planting of most host plants, so I always concentrate on nectar plants which draw the greatest number of butterflies.

Do you think she would be interested in the Connecticut Butterfly Association Garden at Lighthouse Point in New Haven, CT? I just got my newletter with a write-up about how successful it was last summer.( I have yet to get there, but hope to volunteer there this year.)

Or is she only interested in backyard-type garden?

Maryann
linda_centralokzn6
Original Author
17 years ago
I don't know, Maryann. E-mail her, and see. I just thought that I would share it, as it was posted on the Monarch Watch D-plex.
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sandwhy
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Thanks for the heads up Linda!!

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17 years ago
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linda_centralokzn6
Original Author
17 years ago
Yes, that would be the PERFECT place. I had forgotten that they had gone out of the country. Isn't it WV? I wonder if that would come close to be considered northeast?
larry_gene
17 years ago
A recent Birds & Blooms magazine had a photo of an amazing 1/3 acre butterfly garden in the shape of a butterfly!
mcronin
17 years ago
tdog&linda,

Thanks for the kind words about Camelot. I'll contact Donna and invite her to add it to her list of butterfly gardens if she wants to expand beyond NE.

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susanlynne48
17 years ago
Don't we have anyone in the NE that butterfly gardens? Pennsylvania, Connecticut? I bet Maryann knows of some gardeners in Connecticut with her association to the Butterfly group there.

I thought we had someone in Maryland, too? Am I just dreaming again?

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I'd volunteer our place but I doubt that a small 20'x30' garden is going to impress anyone. Also, if I'm working soon and they'd want to come during the week, I doubt if they'd let me off of work for that and I'm bad at lying. lol If I'd have more planted here, I'd think about contacting the magazine, but being that I just started last year, I really don't have a whole lot.

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