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Thx to you RSBob et all who set the higher standards here!
Beautiful. We all learn something new every day.

Originally my butterfly bushes in Michiagn brought in all swarms of insect visitors including weird hummingbird moths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum There also used to be tons of cone flowers, false sunflowers, beebaum, and others. There used to be almost way too much bees in the backyard in the beginning despite my brown thumb. Swarms covering everything. I'm going to try to get back to there.
No sprays. Always natural.
Some of the native stuff was crowded out from pruning, neglect, and being planted in the wrong place. Especially because I did not even amending or feed the crappy soil. There were also very hot summers, terrible woodchucks which ate everything in 2 days, moles, tomatoe blight right before picking, powdery mildew destroying all the vegetable vines for the last decade and an entire list of gardening disasters.
There is always last year's garden. And next year's garden. But this year something will go wrong. Hey.

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