What a fantastic resource!  As both an at-home Butterfly Garden enthusiast and a professional Horticulturist advocating for pollinator support, this book was a fantastic read, and excellent resource.  Every section was informative with far more detail than I usually find in books of this nature.  As a Canadian, I had NO IDEA there were so many species of Milkweed!  It was very interesting to read about the plant details and habitats that the Monarchs visit after leaving our region.  

Having previously been impressed by “100 Plants to Feed the Bees” I also enjoyed this publication from The Xerces Society and will be adding a print copy to my reference collection.  I do hope the book is going to be proofread visually as a number of images have watermarks, and some of the layouts seem incorrect. I received this free digital ARC from NetGalley and I am not compensated for this review.

This book is like Storey's other book 100 plants to feed the bees. I like the format that it set up in.

Excellent title! This is a book designed to help encourage more milkweed growth due to overuse of pesticides. We are killing pollinators.

   What did I like? This book has an urgent message that needs to be heard. Food growth has taken an incredible turn as over use of pesticides are killing our natural pollinators. In this book the Monarch butterflies main food source are milk weeds. Drastic pesticide use has killed a large amount of this butterflies food source. The book encourages every day people to check out local milk weeds and plant to help the Monarch thrive.

    Would I recommend or buy? I’d definitely recommend.... although we need to really buy local milk weed to plant so as to not screw up the natural order of the Monarch butterfly. I found the book to be thought provoking and informative!  I’d love to get some butterflies in my garden and recall many of these wild plants as a child in NY.

   Five stars for a wealth of information! I received a complimentary copy to read and voluntarily left a review! Kudos to the author!

**I received and voluntarily read an e-ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.**

With so many butterflies and bees becoming endangered in this day and age, it's great to see a book that can help lessen the decline of these populations.

Overall, it's a great book if you've got an area where you can plant some flowers to help Mother Nature out.

A well researched], well-written reference. which is a must-have for anyone wishing to create habitats for the monarch. It covers all regions and all stages of the monarch.   Job well done.

100 Plants to Feed the Monarch has quite a bit of useful information. If monarch habitats are a new concept for you, you'll find an overview of the various kinds of milkweed, practical suggestions for laying out a monarch feeding area, and reviews of additional plants that would be useful additions.

I read this on a Kindle, and the book is not ready for release in its current form. The formatting is terrible; photos overlap or are missing altogether, sometimes obscuring the text, and paragraphs are cut and disjointed, making it hard to follow.  Some strange terminology is used - Monarch butterflies are called "animals", which may be technically correct in that they belong to the animal kingdom, but it's clunky.  

Overall, it's a helpful addition to a collection on butterfly gardens. The publisher needs to FIX THE FORMATTING, or it will be discarded by the reader.

A good gardener's book and those who do love butterflies. A decent amount of information about different plants (and areas they grow). A nice introduction to the monarch.

This is a must read book for anyone who wants to help the Monarch thrive. It is full of information on plants and needs for the butterfly. I will refer back to this book often. Thank you Storey Publishing via NetGalley for the ARC copy of this book.

I really appreciated this book as a native plant gardener and naturalist. Too often plants for butterflies are either naturalized species or ones that are just very prevalent in the garden industry. I loved how detailed the list of plant species got and wish we could have a regional version, too!

A must have for any native plant and butterfly gardener!

Thank you for the opportunity to review this book. I enjoyed looking at the gorgeous visuals and learning more about plants, insects, and nature. Particularly, I was a fan of learning how to craft my outdoor space to help out the butterflies. I am a fan of them and we always have tons in the nice seasons. I have always wanted to know what I could put in my gardens to feed/attract them, and this book was obviously perfect for this. This book was actually pretty cool in both learning about plants AND butterflies. I'm hoping to purchase this book for a handy guide in the upcoming seasons.

Appreciating nature, learning its needs to flourish and how to help it to be more sustainable forthefutureof our planet.

You can never go wrong with a book produced by The Xerces Society. Their website is one that I turn to time and time again. This book is spectacular. 

The books covers the basics of the life of a monarch and creating monarch habitats. It then advances to the plants monarch need, starting with a full education on milkweeds. Non-milkweed plants, wild flowers, trees, shrubs, and vines as sources of nectar are also included. My favorite part of the book is the ‘plant profiles.’ For each plant, there is a standard profile that includes exposure, soil moisture, bloom time, uses, companion species, growing range, and great photos. One can quickly look through the profiles to find flowers that are good for their region, and then make decisions based on exposure and soil moisture. I have quickly discovered new flowers I must try!

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We have been tagging monarchs for the past two years and this year build an enclosure to raise them. This book gives great information on all things monarch and especially their favorite and necessary food-milkweed. Great resource. Planning on adding some of the plants detailed in my garden.

Excellent book with much more than a plant list. The opening sections have detailed information about monarchs, their life cycles and their migration. The bulk of the book is devoted to the plants. Each plant has a picture, often more than one, basic care information, a range map, and lots of detailed information about where to plant it.

For those wishing to create gardens to attract or feed monarchs, this book is a must have.

A beautiful book with so much information about how we can help the monarchs in their annual journey. It was also eye opening in the sense that I just didn't realize how many strains of milkweed there are.
Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review.

Incredibly thorough and interesting - who knew there were so many types of milkweed? Loved all of the different plants outlined, but I do wish the region was listed on the initial page of each entry as it was disappointing to find a plant I wanted to try only to turn the page and see it wasn't doable in my area.

I have butterfly bushes as is, with mixed results. But I’m definitely very motivated to attract monarchs and their friends. This reference is a very detailed and thorough assembly of plants you would look to own if you want to attract monarch butterflies. This book definitely gives me the confidence that I would succeed in time. Nice work!

This is a great resource for gardeners looking to grow more monarch-friendly plants.

We have several stands of milkweed on our property just for the monarchs and our kids have raised monarchs for many years, bringing in leaves with tiny eggs or caterpillars that we house in homemade butterfly houses. We care for them with fresh milkweed leaves each day and watch as they grow bigger and eventually form chrysalises, then watch them transform inside (you can see their wings forming inside towards the end of the time) until they emerge. They spend the morning pumping and drying their wings, and then we carefully release them outside. They often hang around perched happily on the kids' fingers for many minutes before they fly away, and it's a pretty magical thing to be part of. Even if you don't raise them inside, having a yard full of monarchs is pretty magical, and they really need our help these days.

This book starts with information about monarchs, then moves on to profiling milkweeds. Of the 100 plants to feed the monarch, the first 31 are all species of milkweeds since they are the primary host plant of the caterpillar. From there, there are nectar producing plants that attract the butterflies, all of which are native and easy to grow. Zones are not listed, but maps show the natural range of each plant. Growing information and photos are provided for each plant, which are also great flowers for other polinators (and are frequently quite pretty, too).

All in all, it's a very thorough, helpful and well researched guide.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

I admit to not knowing much about butterflies before reading this one. Yeah, butterflies are pretty and we should support them, but it was actually a newfound love of plants that drew me into this book. I'm so glad it did. I learned a ton here, including about the butterfly life cycle and their epic migration. The main draw here is the plants that butterflies, and other pollinators, need. I was encouraged by the author's description of how easy it is to help - if everyone who reads this book plants even a couple of supportive plants, we can make life just a little easier for butterflies and other pollinators. Count me in!
Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to preview a digital version of this book.

What a great book to learn more about a Monarch butterfly and how to preserve it for the future. Lovely pictures and easily written. Everything you have to know is in this book!