On Saturday, we took a long road trip to the
Prairie Restorations headquarters in Princeton, MN, with the purpose of purchasing some swamp milkweed to add to our butterfly garden. Butterflies, particularly monarchs, lay their eggs on swamp milkweed as the caterpillars find the plant quite tasty. Not only did we find some milkweed at Prairie Restorations, we also went home with a few other treats!
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| Pink Rue Anemone (Enemion biternatum) |
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| Dwarf Trout Lily (Erythronium Propullans) |
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| Bishop's Cap or Two-leaf Miterwort (Mitella Diphylla) |
I'm hoping these plants thrive in our woodland shade garden. When we moved into our house four years ago, I lamented the fact that I couldn't grow a large number of my favorite sun loving plants because of our heavily shaded lot. I have one very small sunny garden that I've had to load up with lilies and the like, and the rest of the gardens are made up of shade loving plants. Four years later, and my favorite spot in the yard is the shade garden out by the road. Who would have thought I could learn to love the shade.
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