Passiflorahoeve: European butterfly garden
Last week I paid a visit to the Passiflorahoeve. I had not been there before and was surprised by the large amount of butterflies and flowers.
The first two parts in which I explored the tropical butterfly garden, the tropical butterfly nursery and the tropical greenhouse can be seen below.
Today we take a look at the European butterfly garden.
On the website of the Passiflorahoeve you can find:
We dare to say with confidence that this is the most unique garden in Europe, because as this garden is landscaped you will not find anywhere else.
We have created five different biotopes here: heather biotope, dry biotope, forest biotope, marsh biotope and a meadow biotope. There are also different soil mixtures per biotope that fit specifically to that, we even brought raw materials from Italy.
In the construction of the different biotopes we had help from friends from abroad because that requires so much knowledge that you can never know alone.
In this garden you can see beautiful moonstones lying, but these also have multiple functions. The moonstones contain minerals that the butterflies need. Also, the stones retain heat so that the butterflies can use it to warm up the next morning, in addition, they can hide in the holes, cracks and potholes.
The waterfall is a nice place for the butterflies to drink but also to cool down and of course you can also enjoy here on one of the benches just for a while.
The first butterfly I see in the European butterfly garden is the monarch butterfly.
A butterfly that (to my great pleasure) shows itself a lot and often.
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