Meadow View Growers in New Carlisle has opened its Butterfly House for the 2017 season. MVG is maintaining various species of butterflies in all their life stages: adults, caterpillars, chrysalises and eggs. Customers can observe Monarchs, Painted Ladies, Mourning Cloaks and more all free of charge. Meadow View feels the house is an educational tool bringing special attention to the Monarch butterfly’s plummeting population seen over the last few decades. The Butterfly House is open during regular business hours.

Meadow View, a grower / retailer of fine plants, is doing its part to help the butterflies through the hundreds of milkweed and other nectar plants grown and maintained in their landscape display gardens. MVG also sells milkweed as well as many other host and nectar plants both annual and perennial pollinators need. Milkweed is the common name for the genus Asclepias, the host plant on which female Monarch butterflies lay their eggs. The caterpillars that emerge from these eggs then have a ready food source available. Monarch caterpillars, as well as other pollinators, are extremely sensitive to environmental toxins. For that reason, employees avoid handling them and toxic plant sprays are avoided. Meadow View became a certified Monarch Waystation earlier in 2016. They are located at 755 N. Dayton-Lakeview Road (SR 235), just south of New Carlisle. For more information visit www.meadowview.com

About Meadow View Growers

One of the Dayton area’s largest retail garden centers, Meadow View Growers was founded in 1984, is located in New Carlisle on state Route 235 and can be found online at www.meadowview.com. Meadow View Growers is a family-owned operation committed to producing the widest variety and finest quality of plants. The location features 40 greenhouse structures and specializes in hard-to-find selections including annuals, perennials, herbs, trees and shrubs.

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