The coontie is native to the Florida peninsula ... The Atala butterfly, Eumaeus atala, typically lays its eggs on the foliage of coontie plants. During her life, a single female Atala can produce ...

Just like the perfect partner in a relationship, native plants are amenable ... who are now the proud caretakers of a butterfly garden, managed the switch without much pushback from not just ...

Native plants can reduce your yard maintenance and give you a pretty Florida-specific view and an ecologically active garden. Brenda Daly is a Master Gardener volunteer with the Duval County ...

A small butterfly once thought ... collection of tropical plants, some of them rarer than the insect munching them. The butterfly is the atala, a South Florida native whose life cycle and survival ...

Once thought to be gone forever from Florida ... She bought some coontie plants at a native plant nursery, then dropped them off at the butterfly garden outside Hecker’s office in south Sarasota.

With a nickname like the “Sunshine State”, it’s no surprise that Florida has a diverse, vibrant range of native ... These ...

This interesting and educational pollinator/butterfly garden is not an all-native garden. as there are so many non-native Florida friendly plants that attract pollinators and really make a garden ...

Ogden said she had planted Florida-friendly plants, such as thryallis ... Starting as a small butterfly garden, it bloomed into a yard teeming with native wildflowers, shrubs and trees.

The resurgence of a native ... native Atala butterfly, which relies on the coontie and related plants to feed its larvae. Both species were considered extirpated in the state of Florida for ...

Dale Skaggs plants a native azalea and Joellen Dimond plants a butterfly garden. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Dixon Gallery & Gardens Head of Horticulture Dale Skaggs ...

If you’re new to South Florida ... 80 native species in her yard and uses rain barrels for watering instead of a sprinkler system. She recommends these native plants and trees for your garden.

The Florida Native Butterfly Society ... also have a lot more work to do on the garden, including planting more butterfly-friendly host plants such as Dutchman’s pipe, coontie, corkystem ...