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Mark the location of perennials like butterfly weed and hardy hibiscus that emerge later than most plants in spring.

“The butterflies have always been here,” she said as she watches a monarch circle the flaming orange blossoms of a type of milkweed called, appropriately, butterfly weed.

She placed the monarch caterpillar and the butterfly weed it was attached to inside the cage to protect it from red wasps.

Never count spring snow out…fingers crossed for the butterfly weed I planted!

“In June, one laid eggs all over my butterfly weed. Probably had a dozen get to full size, and then one day,” he said, “they all disappeared.”