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Everyday Nature Secrets
Discover the Hidden World in your Backyard
Birds&Blooms
AMY BOSSE
Youve always lived in the company of nature. But have you lived in true companionship with it?
As you page through this book (best enjoyed while sitting outside on your favorite chair), youll start to do exactly that. Weve designed it as a resource, packed with information on what makes nature and its creatures so incredible. But, above all, weve created it so you feel a deeper connection with all the blooming, buzzing, fluttering and flying happening around you.
Feel free to jump in anywhere. Read a little section or two, get inspired and maybe even grab your binoculars. Then do it again the next day. This is your journey. We hope its a colorful one.
The editors of Birds & Blooms magazine
Your Backyard as Natures HomeLOOK OUTSIDE. ITS AMAZING WHAT BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES ARE UP TOAND WHAT YOU CAN DO AS THEIR HOST.
For natures creatures, the outside world is home sweet home. And your backyard is one big living room. Its time to explore how birds and wildlife use their green, leafy spaces. Well reveal how you can be a good neighbor to them. Youll even learn how to spot different types of nests and get tips on how to draw your favorite fliers closer than ever before.
Its easier than you think to bring these vibrant, fluttery fliers to your yard.
Dont get too hung up on the size of your garden or how fancy it looks. Butterfly gardening can be as small as a few pots on your back porch. Remember that the best butterfly gardens can look a little overgrown or raggedthats enticing to the butterflies.
CAROL L. EDWARDS
Great spangled fritillary on purple coneflower
PROVIDE GOOD FOOD SOURCES.
Most butterflies get the majority of their diet from nectar-producing plants, so these should make up the largest part of your garden. Good bets for almost anyone include salvia, lantana, pentas, aster, marigold, zinnia and coneflower.
Let go of chemicals. Gardeners should avoid using pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers that have harmful effects. Prep your butterfly gardens soil with plenty of compost so your plants will thrive without much additional fertilization. If you need to kill off grass in the area, cover it with a layer of newspaper, cardboard or weed cloth and add about 4 inches of mulch on top.
Put non-plant options on the menu. Some butterflies, like mourning cloaks and red-spotted purples, prefer to feed on tree sap or rotting fruit. Offer fruit like bananas, strawberries and oranges for these butterflies. Keep ants away by filling a shallow dish with water and setting the fruit in the middle.
Include host plants. Butterflies need places to deposit their eggs, and each species has a plant or group of plants that their caterpillars will eat, known as host plants. The best way to attract a wider variety of butterflies is to provide the host plants they need.
DAVE WELLING
Giant swallowtail on coneflower
Make room for milkweed. Host plants vary by area, but just about anyone can plant milkweed for monarchs, hollyhocks for painted ladies and violets for great spangled fritillaries.
Create your own puddles. Butterflies use their delicate proboscises to sip water from dewdrops and puddles. Some are especially likely to gather in large numbers around muddy areas. Go ahead and try to mimic these natural water areas with a shallow dish of wet sand or mud.
RICHARD DAY/DAYBREAK IMAGERY
Black swallowtails on lantana
KITCHIN AND HURST/GETTY IMAGES
Monarchs on garden phlox
Do a little research. To determine the best host plants for your garden, start by finding out which butterflies are regular visitors to your area. Then start seeking out the host plants these butterflies need.
Offer natural butterfly houses. Raindrops can seem like bowling balls to butterflies, so when bad weather threatens, they seek shelter. Though you can buy ready-made butterfly houses, youll find butterflies are likely to use natural areas such as tall grasses and thick shrubs.
Let fall leaves lie. Some butterflies overwinter in crevices in tree bark and rocks, while others spend the winter as caterpillars or chrysalides buried deep in the leaf litter beneath trees. Dont be too quick to remove all that fallen foliage each autumn.
STEVE AND DAVE MASLOWSKI
Northern cardinal
Follow these quick tips and youll have a backyard full of scarlet fliers.
Grab some cover. A yard with plenty of cover is likely to host many cardinals (especially in winter, when these birds travel in flocks); try planting arborvitae, juniper and spruce.
Stock the pantry for new cardinal families. Its easy: Plant caterpillar host plants like dill, fennel, hollyhock, mustard greens and snapdragon. Parent cardinals feed their young almost exclusively with insects; when very young, babies eat soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars.
Plant raspberry, hawthorn, sumac and winterberry. They help males shine bright red. For a male, the more vibrant his red, the likelier he is to find a mate. Males must eat a variety of bright red foods to keep their coats glowing.
Grow medium-sized seeds. Aside from filling your feeders with black oil sunflower seed, try planting corn, Purple Majesty millet, nasturtium, purple coneflower, safflower, sunflower and sweet pea.
CONSIDER NESTING HABITS
Help cardinals raise their brood in peace. You can do it by offering box elder, eastern red cedar, hawthorn, nannyberry, rose and wild grape. Cardinals build their nests only 4 to 8 feet off the ground, and they prefer the coverage of and protection of evergreens.
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