Plant and they will come!

Monarchs and friends in the mid-summer garden. A host of pollinators finds sustenance in the zinnia and milkweed patch.

Cast

Monarch

Tiger Swallowtail

American Lady

Black Swallowtail

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Clouded Sulphur

Cabbage White

Various bees and skippers

Zinnia elegans

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticilllata)

Phlox paniculata

“Carnival of the Animals”

Camille Saint-Saens

Philharmonia Orchestra