Gardening was a hobby for my grandmother tooMy mass of greenery in Caledon. My sons each had a little veggie garden.I always add milkweed to my gardens for the Monarchs.When you grow your own veggies, you sometimes get a surpriseI had the idea of creating a butterfly garden using sand and tires. Yes, that’s my tractor.I laid down the weed barrier and painted the tires.Then added the sand with my trusty Kioti tractorThen, I added plants. This year, 2023, it should be a bit more filled in with flowers.My mother’s front yard is awash with plants. Those are my sons. The sand prevents weeding but I will still have to rake the fall leavesNext, I bought some used blocks on Facebook’s Marketplace and started to design gardens on a slopeI had to move this bush garden in November cause it caused problems when plowing snowMy friend had a pond liner sitting around, in it wentNext came the plants 🪴 The front yard was a little bare so yes, I dug some more