What do birds and butterflies have in common? Caterpillars! Caterpillars are baby butterflies, and also are the most important food for baby birds. So if you grow the plants that both birds and butterflies need, you’ll have more of both in your garden.

Rufous Hummingbird and Monarch butterfly nectaring on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). Photos by Sylvia Wright
Rufous Hummingbird and Monarch butterfly nectaring on Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). Photos by Sylvia Wright

Come join us Saturday, March 9, for an indoor workshop on Gardening for Birds & Butterflies. Details on what plants are best and how to grow them. Great photos of local birds and bugs in our Nevada County gardens.

March 9, 10 a.m. to noon, Veterans Memorial Hall Remembrance Hall, 255 South Auburn St., Grass Valley.