Wilson Plant Company is a nursery nestled in the middle of Frankfurt.

It is a 100% woman owned business and it's looking to do more than just sell plants.

It's opened a butterfly greenhouse, educating guests on the importance of this tiny insect to the whole commonwealth.

Sit back and smell the roses.

During this week's Arts and Culture segment we call Tapestry.

In the last five or ten years, there's been a lot of talk about pollinators and the problems that we're having with our crops and just the general conservation and preservation of our pollinator species.

Specifically in this case, we're talking about our butterflies.

And so we actually took a greenhouse structure that we had and basically just sort of created it into a really great butterfly house experience.

Throughout the course of our season, we would have around 5000 butterflies.

And on any given day, you might find anywhere from 200 to 1000.

Some butterfly houses might have some tropical species, but but we made a choice that we wanted it to be only our native species.

What's been very interesting for me is that it's all ages and I always kind of think of our butterfly greenhouse as something for children.

But what I learned five years ago when we opened was I think adults are every bit as amazed by the butterflies as children.

And so what we are trying to show really is the connection between butterflies and plants and there is no greater connection.

Without plants, there are no butterflies.

And without butterflies and pollinators, there are no plants.

So that is impossible to ignore.

In many cases, our our, our gardens and our fields have turned in the lawns, which is oak.

It's okay to have a lawn.

But what we're really trying to do is promote planting plants, annuals, perennials, vegetables, even herbs, trees and shrubs that the butterflies need for their survival.

It's very important that there's a there's diversity in plants and that something that has largely gone away.

So we do we spend a lot of time promoting the gardening aspect of it.

And I think most people now know that it's important that we preserve our monarch.

You know, there are specific things that we do here to make sure that we're perpetuating those monarch populations.

So I think there's just something magical about it.

I think that butterflies represent life and everyone thinks the butterfly is beautiful and they're symbolic in so many ways of so many things.

Mm hmm.

Love, Butterflies.

The butterfly house will hold a tag and release event this Saturday.

After that, the butterflies migratory paths can be tracked and studied.

Sounds like a good deal.