My Native Wisconsin Butterfly Garden

While my hope is that native violets will fill in as a living groundcover, mulch is needed in the meantime. I've labeled every single plant so that I will know what should appear where and to better inform my future weeding activities after a long winter.

With a few desirable plants protected, and a pile of dirt waiting, it was time to get busy...

I convinced my husband to purchase landscape timbers and build a small retaining wall so that we could build up the soil level.