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Planting Lessons Learned
I planted a butterfly garden last fall on the side of our house with full sun exposure. Most of the day lillies, asiatic lillies, the butterfly bush and the tall snapdragons did well. I lost the echinacea and lavender. 
So after a bit more reading this year, I decided that my big mistake was to have planted those particular perennials in the fall instead of the spring due to my Zone 6 conditions. I plan to plant them again next spring in the hopes of an even better butterfly garden.
In the meantime, we’ve had a lot of visitors to my herb garden in the forms of gently buzzing bees as well as nice dragon flies at our pond. Dragon flies are good because they eat mosquitoes and I’m not really a fan of mosquitoes. 
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