I went shopping at a huge Florida native plant nursery and bought a bunch of new wildflowers for my garden. See which plants I brought home and how I am tagging them before I plant them in my garden. Then watch as we spot a myriad of butterfly species as they visit my garden. Of course, there will be adorable caterpillars too. I also share a new plant that was gifted to me from one of my viewers that is a fabulous addition for my butterfly garden because it attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
A monarch emerging from her chrysalis. A giant swallowtail spreading her wings for the first time. AND 12 brand-new Florida native wildflowers just arrived from the nursery — it was quite a day in the butterfly garden!
Join me as I unbox and tag my new native plant haul, including a mystery aster, Chaya, and several wildflowers to attract more butterflies to my Florida Zone 10a garden. Plus — we spot a rare Viceroy butterfly, watch Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars multiply, and celebrate two beautiful butterfly emergences!
🌿 What’s in this video:
New native wildflower plant haul (12 plants!)
Solving the mystery aster identification
Viceroy butterfly sighting
Saving Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars
Giant Swallowtail emerges in the enclosure
Chaya plant: edible AND attracts butterflies + hummingbirds
Female Monarch emerges
Garden life montage
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21 Comments
Love the chaya! And the white peacocks love it in my garden. I had several of them die to the grown this past winter, but did come back at the base. That's a really great addition to your garden. 🦋🐛🦋
My Central Florida Spinach Trees died back to the ground in our freeze but are both coming back well!!
ive got one pipevine and havent seen any sallowtail caterpillers at all
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It was so very nice to meet you in person!
All-time best video!
I got so excited over the plant you purchased, I stopped your video and looked them all up!!
Pretend these are emojis. I love to walk my dog in the neighborhood where he samples other dogs messages and leaves messages, and I love to take my dog in the woods!!!
I love it when your dogs tongues stick out. They look so cute!!!
I want to get the smoothie aster one day also. We have wild purple aster, but they are small, but vey cute, and calico, and that one like yours that blooms all over the place that is white and small.
We have the silver leaf aster which looks like grass half the season. Also the Maryland yellow aster which has a good size flower and character with its curved stems. It’s really beautiful. Also the narrow leaves white top asteroid has a unique flower with some of the petals much longer and curved with a wild windswept look.
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Beautiful butterflies, caterpillars and flowers Susan! Thoroughly enjoyed this video! 🌸🦋🌻🐛🦓🩷🧡🖤
I managed to see a Tiger swallowtail butterfly in my yard while I was testing my sprinklers. I recently posted video on the butterfly on my channel. Make sure to check it out if you have not seen you.
Hi Susan! I took a chance and was here at Plant Local when they opened…sadly she said your pentas sold within 40 minutes of you dropping them off. 🥲🥲 I didn’t want to waste the drive, so I picked up 3 other plants (butterfly pea, sneezeweed and rouge plant.)
I’ll be back tho. 😊🦋🌸
Chaya is wonderful for butterflies. Mine died with the freeze but is coming back at the base. It was a wonderful looking tree full of butterflies 🦋
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👋👐🖐️☁️Taichi. (Wave hands in the clouds)
I just looked it up to see if they have stock. It has in all caps "Not big enough for feeding" 😊 Some is better than none, I'll say.
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