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We are glad people have enjoyed the photos of Mary's garden. It is, as she says, a work in progress. The garden is a combination of Florida native and Florida friendly. For example, we have two crape myrtles which we love. They are not native to Florida. In addition, if you actually see our house, we tried to save every plant that The Villages had supplied. We did this primarily by moving them to other places around the house. Mary's goal was to encourage butterflies with a large combination of both host and nectar plants. At the moment, that seems to be working very well as we have many Monarch caterpillars on our tropical milkweed (but none on our native milkweed) as well as a growing number of Gulf Fritillary caterpillars on our passion flowers. The are many other creatures like bees, wasps, lady bugs, aphids, anoles, rabbits and more. While we have planted a number of things specifically to attract hummingbirds, we haven't seen even one. The same is true for Bluebirds. I will periodically add photos to the album with the link in a prior post. If you want to stop by, send me a private message. Mary loves to talk about the garden and she can answer many questions that I really cannot.