Summary: Gardening for wildlife is fun! Wildlife gardens are beautiful, full of life, always changing, and always engaging. What’s the newest bird, butterfly, dragonfly or flower to be recorded in the garden? Wildlife gardens pull you outside to examine things closely, and while you’re there the little garden chores become aesthetic ecological interpretative acts. A gardener will think, "Hmmmm, I’ll deadhead the blue mist so the queen butterflies come back, and I’ll remove the espantes vaqueros so the tube tongue doesn’t get shaded out . Then the vesta crescent butterflies will lay some eggs. Aaah... the evergreen sumac has ripe fruit, so it’s time to make some lemony tasting tea...
