The Monarch Waystation Program:
The Maitland Garden of Hope is an official way station. Monarch Watch, a U.S.-based non-profit education, conservation, and research program, asks people to plant various types of milkweeds and other nectar plants in their home gardens and on large unused plots of land, as well as in schoolyards, in parks, and along roadsides, to provide the butterflies with regularly spaced feeding and breeding stations. Gardeners can buy a way station seed kit and guide, apply to certify their garden as an official way station, and check out an interactive map showing every way station in North America.