And you can take books out of the circulating library, which has 1,800 volumes on everything from making dried-flower wreaths to butterfly gardening.

Born in Dannebrog, Nebraska, of "Postcard from Nebraska" fame and raised in northeast Seattle, Senator Jacobsen enjoys bird watching, hummingbird and butterfly gardening.

Done correctly, butterfly gardening can increase the populations of butterflies.

Serious butterfly gardening requires hitting the books.

Being the sole food source of monarch butterfly larvae, the plant is often used in butterfly gardening.

It can be part of butterfly gardening and pollinators-honey bee habitat gardens.

The hardest part of butterfly gardening is psychological: you just have to learn to let your lawn go.

The NABA was formed in order to promote awareness of butterfly conservation and the benefits of butterfly gardening, observation, photography and education.

Asclepias verticillata (Whorled Milkweed, or Horsetail Milkweed) is a species of milkweed which is used as a medicinal plant by Native American tribes and in butterfly gardening.

It is an attractive perennial, can be variable in appearance, and is used in butterfly gardening.