Monarch Butterfly Way Station

Sue and Jackson unveiled our monarch way station at our annual native day event on April 28th, 2018. The station is located under our Weston Gardens sign at the garden center and is certified with the Monarch Watch Way Station Program.

The beds remained undone for quite sometime before our landscape crew installed the beautiful, butterfly way station. Sue, Randy and their son Jackson Weston were unsure of what to do with these beds. Being one of the first full Texas Native garden centers, they didn’t want to just throw something in that had zero purpose or just to look good. A lot of thought went into what to center this focal piece at our garden center.

With the monarch butterflies facing extinction, Sue Weston knew a way station was the perfect solution. Due to development, there aren’t enough native plants for the monarch butterflies to receive nectar from in order to migrate to Mexico in the fall. Our monarch way station has something in bloom every season in order to help solve this problem. Come check it out and get ideas on how to build your very own butterfly way station!