Now It Looks Like a Butterfly Graveyard!

Between the way-too-early snowfalls and before the weather got really terrible, I was able to install some fall-ordered bare root plants (never again -- that was brutal!)

But the spring version of myself will be thankful that I was able to add in blazingstar, heath aster, blue-stemmed goldenrod, all the violets (labeled) and all the extremely early blooming sharp-loped hepatica (noted with the popsicle sticks).

I also put protection around the milkweed, as I've heard rabbits tend to nibble down early milkweed shoots. All the plant labels make it look like a graveyard, but I have high hopes it will be full of life next spring.

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Down Goes The Cardboard

20 Bags of Mulch on the Ground

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.

Garden Sketch -- What I Planted Where

I took some time to make an amateur sketch of my planting layout, taking care to size the drawings for each plant's eventual mature width. BFI = Blue False Indigo CB = Columbine FG = Foxglove FN = False Nettle GA = Golden Alexander HV = Hoary Vervain LBS = Little Bluestem OCF = Orange Coneflower PCF = Purple Coneflower PMW = Purple Milkweed PPCF = Pale Purple Coneflower PV = Prairie Violet RMW = Rose Milkweed SBES = Sweet Black-Eyed Susan SmP = Small's Penstemon SOG = Sideoats Grama YCF = Yellow Coneflower

My Native Wisconsin Butterfly Garden

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