Ideas For Your Backyard

Who doesn’t enjoy seeing a butterfly.  They are so beautiful and graceful.  They flit from flower to flower, to bushes and trees.  Sometimes they land on other things.  Yesterday while sitting on the front porch a butterfly appeared and landed on my husbands’ hand.  The moment was so surreal.  Was it trying to communicate?  I don’t know.  We know we just sat as still as could be so as not to scare it away, and we enjoyed the moment admiring one of God’s creatures.  What can you do to encourage butterflies to your yard?  Do you have colorful plants or a butterfly house? 

Adding beauty to your garden decor can be done several ways, and it will be probably be  different for each of us.  You can add plants, trees, objects, water features.  Beauty is indeed “in the eye of the beholder”.  (and the pocketbook)!

Look down the road and see the “big picture”  maybe you can transform your yard/garden slowly, especially if you have limited resources.  Add a few flowering plants or bushes this year and you’ll be able to see the beauty begin, with birds, butterflies and blooms, then next year maybe you can add a statue or water feature.  This can be repeated year after year until you have created your “masterpiece”.

In the quiet of the garden I watch the butterflies as they flit about, from one plant to the next.  Always on the move, stopping just long enough that I can take in their beauty.  The colors are exquiste!!  Reds, oranges, yellow, blues and greens.  Then I recall how a catepillar changes into this beautiful creature.  Wouldn’t it be fun to watch this transformation?

I love butterflies.  They are so beautiful!  They are graceful, quiet, and don’t seem to bother anyone or anything.  They just seem to go about their business flitting from one place to another, one flower to another.  Doesn’t it make you wonder how and why they were created?  What their purpose is?  Does their varied color have any signifigance? I’m not sure, but I think that they must be the most colorful creature on this earth.

Your backyard is full of beauty.  Sometimes we are so busy with our “stuff” we fail to notice. Take for instance the butterfly.  There is such a wide variety that it is amazing!  And the colors are simply breath taking. 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A butterfly is an insect of the order lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage, and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colorful winged adult form. Most species are day-flying so they regularly attract attention. The diverse patterns formed by their brightly colored wings and their erratic yet graceful flight have made butterfly watching a hobby.Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (super family papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (super family Hedyloidea). Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism Some migrate over long distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Butterflies are important economically as agents of pollination. In addition, a few species are pests, because they can damage domestic crops and trees in their larval stage.

It is always a delight to see a butterfly. The colors and design on the wings may vary. These are popular insects that play an important role in pollination.

Butterflies are becoming popular as themes in weddings. Most weddings nowadays even make use of butterflies being released into the sky as a symbol of good luck to the newlyweds. It is no wonder butterfly houses are also becoming the rage these days.