Ahhh, something successful from my garden comes

There will be an update of the garden adventure soon. We've had some success and failures. The main thing I learned is that those cute little lady bugs can not be trusted with your precious Monarch eggs. We had a little aphid problem and a little unidentified problem, neither of which should have been too costly to the butterfly eggs. Then one day, POOF, everything was cleaned off. Everything. Bug-wise I mean. I suspected the lizards. I researched on the internet and was sad to learn that little lady bugs eat little eggs. I knew about aphids, but who eats butterflies, ya know? Anyway, I sort of blew it off because I didn't find any lady bugs. I continued to inspect, hoping to find even a trace of hope for a buttlerfly egg. "Amazingly clean" I thought.
Then...as the orchestra in my mind swelled in drama...I found it. A lady bug. A big. Fat. Lady bug. Ugh. I paid a lot of money for those plants, weeds I remind you. So that the sweet Monarchs could flurish in our little sanctuary garden. Oh, but no, lady bug comes along and cleans me out! So sometimes home school science doesn't work out quite the way we plan. Instead of watching the stages of wild Monarchs, we'll watch the veracious appetite of the lady bugs. And next year I'll teach the girls how to move lady bugs down the yard to the rose bushes, where they will certainly perish from gluttony. I'll teach them how to wipe off said unidentified black thing with a qtip. And some how, I'll teach them that while we have to take ridiculous care to nuture something in our backyard...it all works in God's garden just as it should.

Sorry, I digressed....

These flowers are some of my successes! Hmmm, wonder why I was going to post about them?? Those ole lady bugs really did suck the joy right out of Milkweed for me. :)