What is up everyone?

What is up everyone? Welcome back to our final episode with Adam Mosley, the research and

new product developer at Pleasant View Gardens, which is the home of proven winners.

We've talked a lot this week about, you know, general plant breeding science,

how it happens, how varieties come into existence, and why they come into into existence as well as some of the

edible stuff that proven winners is doing and then of course we've been talking

about some pollinators and I figured we could button up the week at them with one of

the most popular pollinators out there and one of the most beautiful in my opinion which would be the world of butterflies.

How do we, what is bringing a butterfly into the garden?

I think butterflies really come into the garden. I think butterflies really come into the garden to try and find, you know, those flowers that only they can get at.

You know, and that's, and there's a special, you know, everybody knows there's a special butterfly tool to get in there with their

proviscus or whatever and they kind of get in there and they can get into the tiniest little

holes and I think that there's a really cool genus out there that lends to that perfectly and it's Gumpfrena.

We have a new variety called Truffalapink which is a pink flower kind of reminds reminds me of a Dr. Seuss plant, and it's the spiked ball,

it almost looks like an explosion of color, and that one is a great great butterfly plant.

They're the only ones that seem to be able to get down

to the tiny little flowers that make up that cluster.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of pollinator specific plants it's playing on the actual biology of the

insect or or bird right like if it's the only one that can do it then it's going to

colonize that particular species or that particular variety.

The co-evolution of pollinator and food sources is one of the most amazing things I think the planet has to offer.

Yeah, well said.

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