Butterfly Perennial Garden

Lately with all this talk and spring garland sewing, I find that I can't stop looking in the flower catalogs that I get everyday. I can't help but wonder, why my garden never looks like them. This year I plan to take a new and different approach. I'm just going to focus on one section at a time. This spring I plan to build a perennial garden in the back. I want to make a garden that will attract butterflies and birds.

I have been collecting bird houses over the last few years, and I plan to put them at different heights in the garden. I think I'll need a bird bath too. I would love to do something a bit unexpected. Maybe I'll put in a giant toad stool. I saw that once in a magazine. On a wooden log, a metal bowl is nailed in and the bowl is painted red with white dots. Let's see what comes of it.