Bailey from TN Nursery spotted at least three monarch butterflies on purple coneflowers in late October, weeks later than their typical migration. Native plants like coneflowers sustain monarchs and other pollinators through the season.
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Hey guys, it's Bailey with TN Nursery, and it is almost November here. We're about 10 days away from November, and we're still seeing monarchs. Look at that! This is our purple coneflower patch. We got all kinds of purple coneflower because y'all love them. And, uh, there's— I've seen, I think that's my third monarch that I've seen in here, and I can't figure out why they haven't migrated yet. There's, there's two right down there. Um, And these are our purple coneflowers. And oh look, there's all kinds of— look at the honeybees and bumblebees on that. I like petting them bumblebees. Look, they don't mind you petting them a bit. But this is what native plants are about. Look at all the flowers, and all that does is lure these beautiful and wonderful pollinators and saves them from extinction. Plant, plant native today with TN Nursery.