Following the Butterfly: Children's Eye View of a Pollinator Garden
According to my four-year-old daughter, Naomi, a butterfly wakes beneath a leaf and stretches all four wings. Then it flies to the monarda for breakfast, where it drinks as much flower juice as it wants. This summer, that was easy to imagine. Not long after our monarda bloomed, it was covered with butterflies. We had planted it hoping they would come, but I was still surprised by how quickly they arrived and how many there were. The children and I stood watching them move from flower to...
