Very pretty garden spot.

Wow that is beautiful! I need to take note of that plant . Gorgeous are you have made !

Woody, I have had more Monarchs this summer than for many years. Maybe they are late? I only got to know Heptacodium since seeing yours. If I had room for another tree...

I hope you get a good turnout this year....with pics to share :)

I’d love to have one too!

Interesting you have none this year because last weekend mine was covered. I wonder if some particularly good southern winds just sped them further South than they normally get at this time of year, because they've never been early enough to feast on the heptacodium tree here. Usually they wouldn't be here for another two or three weeks.

I'm in NE Pa and they started showing up last Saturday and continued to trickle in through Sunday until there were maybe three or four dozen on the tree. Then they disappeared on Monday as the rains of Florence moved through. Now a week later a few more are showing up, but it's closer to a dozen or so at one time so we'll see what this cold front brings.

Your tree looks beautiful and the arch really sets off that part of the garden!

katob - I wondered how your tree was doing this year because you had said in prior years that you didn’t get a lot of monarchs on it because the flowers didn't coincide with the arrival of the monarchs migrating. We’ve also been wondering what impact Florence and the winds with that may have had on the monarchs. At this point we’re just keeping close watch to see if more monarchs will come passing through... Re the arch - we need to start clipping the euonymus more closely to the arbour now that the euonymus has reached the top, but we’re quite happy with how it is looking so far. It’ll be interesting to see how it looks in snow this winter.

We had a thunderstorm overnight and it’s been very windy today. When we went outl around noon, there were about 15 monarch butterflies in the tree - the most we’ve seen in it at one time this year! They were still there in late afternoon when we got back. The wind certainly seems to be having an impact this year... I hope you figure out how the post the video or a link to it katob - I’d really like to see that.

Katob it’s far from boring imo.

thanks for sharing!

I see the video now! Fabulous! That's what our tree looked like last year - now you know why we sing its praises :-) We can only hope more monarchs show up here in the next day or two.... Thank you for posting that.

Yes, absolutely! I never realized it could be so popular with them until this year. Usually the butterflies crowd other flowers since they've usually been later in arriving.

I'm glad you're seeing some. Maybe there are still many more to come, I've seen many more than usual this summer, and on a trip to New Brunswick in August the caterpillars were all over one of the milkweed plantings we came across.

Hmm. I never notice the monarchs paying attention to the two 7 Sons Flower I have. I'm going to look tomorrow. They like the buddleia next to it, dahlias and milkweed. They have been ignoring the rest but maybe I'm wrong.