Exhibit A: "The Ailing Flower Bed" -- consisting of a deep slope, a shallow soil bed, gravel from the driveway, garlic mustard, and some invasive shrubs. As a co-leader for a Girl Scout troop, I was thrilled when my troop voted to plant habitat gardens for monarch butterflies and native bumblebees. I even tried talking them out of their plans, making sure they really didn't want to do one of their other ideas instead. I didn't want my unexpressed enthusiasm for the project to somehow have subliminally influenced their decision. So when they finalized their idea and selected their garden plans, I set out only to make sure the plants in the pre-planned monarch and pollinator gardens they chose were really ideal native plant choices for monarchs and native pollinators. As I did some fact-checking, something clicked, and I just had to put together a butterfly garden of my own. I researched the common butterflies of Wisconsin, along with their native ...
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