Milkweed Garden with Monarch Butterflies and Hummingbirds in Texas
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2019
- Monarch Butterflly and Hummingbird Garden in Porter,Texas. Probably one of the nicest Monarch Butterfly gardens, with established Milkweed, in the state. A mature garden about 10 years old. With the Monarch almost an Endangered Species, this is a special garden. I am trying to encourage people to plant milkweed in their yards and get involved. Create your own sanctuary.
What a spectacular yard! LOVE it
what a beautiful sanctuary you've created! just magical! i am just now learning about how deeply in trouble monarchs are. i am gonna start a large planter pot with a showy milkweed (its native here) and am in the process of figuring out what other butterfly friendly plants to include. i read a incredibly sad article about monarchs becoming infected with a parasite called OE. it's because people in southern states are planting tropical milkweed from Mexico instead of their native milkweeds. here's a bit of the article. you are probably already aware of this (you obviously know a ton about butterflies!), but i wanna spread the information to everyone who will read this comment in the future,
"What’s been determined is that the proliferation of tropical milkweed (in the southeastern parts of Texas and south Florida in particular), coupled with its near year-round foliage and flower production does two things:
It interferes with the monarch’s migratory cycle. Tropical milkweed encourages them to linger in the southern states and continue breeding and laying eggs, “trapping” them here where they cannot survive temperatures that drop toward the freezing mark. Possibly more important is the effect of milder winters. Given a non-stop supply of milkweed, interference with normal migratory behavior produces populations of monarchs that overwinter in Texas and Florida instead of completing their migration to the oyamel fir tree forests of central Mexico.
Monarchs who stay in the southern states for the winter are five to nine times more likely to be infected with OE than migrating butterflies.
It significantly increases the rate monarchs are infected by the debilitating OE protozoan pathogen. If mild winters don’t produce a freeze, infected milkweed continues to thrive, not dying back like native milkweed species. This means infected plants persist. Infected plants in Texas are especially harmful because they sit in the gateway for the spring and fall monarch migrations.
Migrant butterflies at sites with overwintering residents were 13 times more likely to have infections compared to migrant populations that don’t come in contact with residents."
The Karma alone for planting and supporting Mother Earth is priceless
Always wanted to give back. Just watching everything in the garden is amazing. Plus I build Bluebird houses, and we have Bluebirds and I put up a Purple Martin rack system, so we have purple Martins
What a beautiful garden n home u hve w/such a peaceful environment. Love the bird sounds all around..Bless u on supporting all the humming birds n butterflies that need the help...just love it all..hmmm hmmm😊
Everyone should be stepping up, with Sunflower seeds, and fresh water, every day, for the birds. Their environment is evaporating. Literally. A shallow bird bath is best, and keep it brushed out and clean. A bucket of fresh water every day. It is amazing how they know. It is our responsibility, to watch over them.
Beautiful garden! I am starting on my pollinator garden and hope it looks as nice as yours one day!
5 years, minimum, but stay with it. You make adjustments as you go, because you lose some plants. You find out what likes what. Also, modify your sprinkler system, so all the plants are getting watered properly. Easy to do, it's just pvc, and some digging. It all comes together, years down the road.
You have such a beautiful garden! I will now be buying some milkweed! 🦋
Go ahead and get some mature plants, also. They will seed and you will have more. When the caterpillars strip the plants, leave the plant alone, it will grow more leaves. Very neat to watch.
@@manko717 This sounds lovely! I can't wait! 😄
Impressive !
This yard is heaven!
Admiring your beautiful plants, thanks for sharing.
You are welcome. This year, there are two families of Cardinals, Blue Jays, always a family of Wrens, Yellow Bellied Wood Peckers, Downy Woodpeckers, Finches, Chicadees., and of course, Hummingbirds. Plus all the Monarchs and Fratilleries flying around the yard. I feed Black Oil Sunflower Seeds year round. The Parent Birds need the nourishment raising their young, and afterward. They know Tiger by now, and he is older, so he doesn't mess with them. Tiger is more about the mice or rats that show up, at night.
Everybody lets all help the monarchs and plant or sow milkweed.
Thank you so much for giving us the big picture - we so appreciate it!
Plant as much milkweed as you can, plus hummingbird bushes. Habitat destruction around our area and exterminators spraying and fogging yards are killing everything. They are using Pyrethrin and probably Malathion. We have no honey bees left or bumblebees. Hardly see a butterfly anymore. Our bushes used to be covered. The bird baths were ringed with honeybees drinking water, in the afternoons. Now, I see one!! Where is the EAP. These chemicals are killing everything. It’s horrible
Beautiful monarch sanctuary 😊😊😊
outstanding
That's a nice yard Mark, (I hear my favorite bird)..A Wren. Caught one grabbing some of my Catterpillars on the milkweed, I put up some mealworms for them too. It takes a lot of work to have a nice place like yours, but it's sure worth it, huuh! Cheers!
Yes it does, but it beats watching TV. The Wrens work the patio furniture and keep everything clear of spiders and bugs. They love spiders. Keep at it. It pays off.
Thank you very much. The Garden is For Sale, with the House.
Wow👍🏻🙂
Beautiful!
Beautiful garden I raise monarch butterflies too here in ft Lauderdale.
Sadly, I have not seen many Monarchs this season. I see a huge drop in Butterflies, Honey Bees and Bumblebees.
@@manko717 yeah luckily the monarch butterflies stay here all year round we have more sulphur butterflies then most places
Fantastic! Great job!
Very nice.
Nice
I'm jealous of your garden all those beautiful monarch butterflies and hummingbirds. I'm just starting my garden hope mine will do as well as yours great job thank you
You will do good. Just stay with it. I will be posting a video on adding Worms to your garden.
Love it!
Mr. Bond, Thank you for sharing your garden. It is beautiful and inspirational. If there is anything positive about the corona virus it is that it has afforded me the time to be attentive to my garden and I am dedicated to creating a natural butterfly/pollinator garden behind my back fence. I have about 150 X 6 ft of full sun to work with, and parallel to my fence is drainage ditch full of turtles and a few long necked birds. I wish I knew what type of birds they are. I plan on tossing Texas wildflower seeds on the drainage ditch slope later in the year. After just a couple of weeks of planting 4 inch plants, I've already seen a large butterfly enjoying the milkweed and salvia. I'm starting seedlings of coneflower, zinnias, sunflower, chives, asters. Transplanted lantana and agapanthus.I have some leftover flagstone that can be used as warming stones for the butterfly. (I heard that's a good thing to do) I will also be adding colorful dishes for water sources for flying friends! Wish me luck!
Alicia
I dump my Birdbath, every evening and pour in fresh water, also. The birds know it is fresh, and are there every day and evenings. Cardinals, Chicadees, Wrens and Blue Jays all come for their drink and bath. Always use a Shallow Bath, as the birds can stand and bath. Plus they are easy to keep clean with a brush. Deep baths are worthless, and get filthy. Stay committed to your garden. I also feed my birds with Black oil Sunflower seeds all the time. It provides much nourishment when they are raising their young. Your long neck birds in your ditch are probably Herons or Egrets. My problem with them is the amount of Frogs they take. The old timers use to thin them out. There use to be more frogs and tadpoles. Good luck on your Garden. I will try to post another. The birds keep the garden groomed of bugs. Especially the Wrens. Also, hang a Suet Feeder high in a Tree. Woodpeckers will come. I have a whole family of Downy Woodpeckers, now.
@@manko717 Thanks for all the great advice! I will continue to check in.
@@alicialam8828 no problem. Any help, let me know.
You should add some passion fruit for gulf fritillary butterflies and some fennel for black swallowtail too and plant some hummingbird mint and butterfly bush you'll have many many more butterflies.
We have the fennel.
Thanks for sharing! Neighbor in Kingwood TX.
Beautiful
Thank you. Our Texas freeze hurt everything this year
I had never heard or seen a “Bottle Brush” tree. Beautiful!
So sad, the Texas Freeze, February of 2021, killed them all. We cried. There were thousands of blooms, getting ready at the time.
They are subtropical. Really cannot take a hard freeze. We lost them all after 13 years, with the one week freeze, Feb 21. Devastating. Heartbreaking
@@manko717 I saw your video yesterday and was amazed many of those plants are still huge like that in the ground and in Texas. Since everything died in the freeze would you do more container gardening? To be able to bring them inside.
*Goals!!!*
Nice garden, full of nectar plants. What was the plant with the yellow tubular flowers on the back side of the house
The big tall plant is Esperanza. . Has big yellow tubular flowers. Really nice.
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The prettiest butterfly/hummingbird garden I have ever seen. Are you familiar with the Powder Puff bush? I am in Central Coastal Florida and they grow well here. They are drought resistant. A neighbor has two very large red ones and they get covered with bees when they bloom. His is red. They come in pink, also. One would be a beautiful addition to your already colorful garden. Thank you for showing us your garden.
I’ll check it out. I thought someone would buy our house that loved a garden.
BEAUTIFUL garden. Im in Kingwood and i just love your arrangement. So nice.
Thank you, if you need any milkweed, etc. Let me know
I assume that's common milkweed. It's the only one that spreads by rhizomes. That looks like a rhizome colony. They can be difficult to contain in an open area because they grow laterally underground. But that shouldn't be a problem in that area. They'll have to stop at the walkway. Nice!
It seeds out. But a good late freeze can wipe a lot out.
Beautiful Garden! Do you let all the seedpods spread on their own. I just have two plants now. Some with seedpods floating in the air and the other ones are still closed. Do you spread around the seedpods that are ready.
I do capture the milkweed seeds, now, when the pods break open. I’m spring, I put the seeds in pots, cover with a little soil, and grow the babie milkweed. Then I give them away or plant more in garden. They grow really well. No need to germinate. The seeds to really good. The hummingbird bushes always push off shoots. We dig up the small ones and replant or give them away. I get more milkweed doing the seeds myself. Mother Nature is always going to do her thing, too.
Really nice garden! What exactly is hummingbird bush? I'd like to plant some.
My suggestion is : get started asap. Every year counts.
@@manko717 Haha yes, but my question is "what exactly is hummingbird bush?". When I go to the store there's nothing called that. Does it have another name?
Hello Mark,
Are you near Georgetown, Texas? My house is on 1.5 acres and I want to help the Monarchs as much as possible.
Steve
I'm in Porter, Texas. Kingwood area, off 59 North. Sounds like you have a perfect area to really help.
Tropical milkweed not good for monarch butterflies.
@@aaronmartinez9431 I am removing most of it this year, and replacing it with Native milkweed. You are right. It's disruptive. Trying to do the right thing. We will get it right.
Plant the Native Milkweed, to your area. Do a little research, and get the correct Milkweed. We are removing the Tropical and replacing with the Native.
@@manko717 I live in Southern California and I am not removing my tropical milkweed. All milkweed regardless if native or tropical will have the OE spores. The native will dry down along with the OE spores. You just cut down the tropical milkweed in the winter and problem solved. What a pity that you are cutting down the monarchs preferred host type (tropical milkweed) due to misinformation.
You have a gorgeous garden!! I have asked a few monarch UA-camrs this question but haven't gotten an answer. Thought I'd ask you. I have had monarch Caterpillars twice so far. Some have gotten pretty big and i watch for them to make a cocoon but for some reason one day they are all gone. Could birds be eating them?
No, birds do not eat them. I’m not sure what is happening to them. My Monarch usually go up the house and cocoon under the eves. Keep trying.
@@manko717 thank you so much.
what is the trumpet like flower the hummingbird is feeding from at 7:34? I'm 60 miles SE of you so we probably have similar ecosystem. I moved here from up north 5 years ago and got into gardening right away. This is my first year doing flowers since I was only concerned about fruit and vegetable plants. I have a bottle brush tree and bottle brush bush this year. This year I also planted 2 planters of spring/summer/fall plants for pollinators. I was shocked to see a hummingbird in November last year and that got me thinking about all of these pollinators. Thanks!
it's a Mexican Cigar Firecracker plant. There are a few varieties of Firecracker plants. The Hummingbirds really like them.
If we don't have really cold weather, some will stay, and not go further South. It's a Mexican Cigar, or Firecracker plant. Nurseries have them here. The Hummingbirds like them a lot.
@@manko717 thanks for sharing and caring!!!
@@manko717 thanks for sharing and caring!!! Appreciate the additional info.
which milkweed do you have in your garden? I have only Asclepias incarnata, bottle brush bush and tree (one each), and 3 seasons of various pollinator flowers planted. I have a bird bath set up for bees/butterflies with low volume salt water, with sand and rocks. This is a work in progress so would appreciate help on the milkweed. I planted in Feb/Mar but they have not bloomed.
I have a tropical variety, red yellow color. It will take a few years for your Milkweed to really mature, and go to seed. That's when it really gets good All mine just popped, and the seeds look like they have silk parachutes. The wind scatters them all over. It will take time, but it is worth it. I have forgotten the name of mine, but it is probably the most common.
@@manko717 Please pull out the tropical milkweed and replace it with native milkweed to your area. native milkweeds go dormant which is why the monarch even migrates however tropical is from Mexico and does not. this makes monarchs never overwinter and makes them susceptible to less food as butterflies, no host plants when no tropical milkweed is nearby (typically in the winter when all milkweed is naturally dormant and the butterfly still looks to lay eggs and tropical milkweed is not around due to being a non-native), and makes the caterpillars get the OE parasite which fatigues them, prevents wings from developing correctly, or outright kills them while hanging or in the chrysalis.
Are milkweeds evergreen? What happens during winter time? I’m in Texas too and curious about planting these guys in the backyard but it’s pretty windy back here.
They due off if it gets too cold. Just trim in Feb. They grow back and reseed. The caterpillars eat the leaves off, til they are stalks, but the leaves grow back. Don't worry about the wind, nature finds a way.
Google "Native Milkweed to Texas" . The best time to plant is in the Fall, so get ready, and get started. You will wish you had done it years ago. Once you have the Monarchs flying all over your yard, you will see. That is their Host plant, but the love the plant Pride of Barbados. Great plant, super colorful. It is Beautiful, and does great in Texas. Look it up. Get that planted ASAP.
What part of Texas are you in if you don’t mind sharing? I just got a milkweed plant myself at the big box store only says butterfly weed not sure which one it is. 🤷🏻♀️ should it be planted in the ground or is growing in a pot okay? Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden!
Bottlebrush trees are of course very prevalent here in OZ where they're native but how prevalent are they in America?
Where would one find a hummingbird bush? Also, my milkweed is covered with yellow aphids. Ive tried yellow sticky paper, neem, crushing them and NOTHING works. Any advice would be most appreciated! be mostcwelcome
Firebush Hamelia. Your nursery should have them. Don’t worry about the yellow aphids. They are had to control. You can spray them off with water. Other than that, not much you can do without damaging Monarch eggs, or caterpillars
Just a suggestion, when you’re filming. Slow down, try to be steady
, allow your audience have the tie to focus on what you’re showing. The camera takes longer to focus than the eye… your goal should be good context. You’ll get more likes if you’re film is easy to watch… I’m not saying this to be ugly, but in hopes to be helpful… you have a beautiful yard…
so beautiful. what is the name of the plant @5:23 in video
Durantha. Comes in purple or white
What variety of milkweed are you growing?
It's a tropical milkweed, and it works, but we are switching over to a Native Milkweed. The Tropical is not the correct milkweed to be using. We do have Monaco all over the yard, but still not the correct plant, for the Butterly. We will be switching over, this fall. Do the research for your area. Get the correct milkweed. It really is amazing, to have them flying around all the time.
Spellchecker got me. Monaco
I have a lot of baby seedlings of Tropical milkweed along with a lot of the correct seedlings for my area. Since I did all that work with the wrong kind I will be cutting it down before winter then not using it next year. Hope this protects the butterfly's in my area. Just want to be able to enjoy my work for a while. Maybe I will cage them off to keep the monarchs off of them
Beautiful!
Thank you