The Vierthaler’s, master gardeners that have helped us with our project, explained why we might not have butterflies and told us we might want more pollinator plants around the school . One of the plants they recommended was the Seven-Son Tree. It will be a really easy plant and fun to take care of. The Seven-Son Tree grows to be 15 to 25 feet.
This year we had a lack of monarchs in our garden; all of the monarchs we have raised so far have been from a teacher’s home garden.Unfortunately, we didn’t have very much milkweed when we were raising caterpillars; we think that’s why we didn’t have very many monarchs this year. Our goal of buying a seven-son tree will help attract more monarchs.
Seven-son trees are actually shrub sized. When they are mature they grow from six to ten feet tall. They bloom summer through fall. Seven-son blooms also attract other pollinators like bees and hummingbirds.
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