Jun 05 2010
Choosing Butterfly Garden Plants
Zinnias are my favorite butterfly garden plant
Butterfly Garden plants come in all types and colors so there is no trouble finding butterfly garden plants, the hardest part is trying to decide which butterfly garden plants you will use in your garden to attract butterflies.
One of my personal favorite butterfly garden plants are the Zinnia flowers. They come in so many different colors and sizes; they fit into any butterfly garden, whether it is a large or small garden. They are really easy to grow, and the butterflies go nuts for them.I always include them in my garden every year.
Another really great butterfly garden plant is the butterfly bush. While it is considered an invasive plant in some areas; where I live in North Carolina, it is just a really effective butterfly magnet. They are easy to maintain, just prune them back to about a foot in early spring; since they bloom on the new wood, this just makes them flower like crazy!
Black Eyed Susans are very popular butterfly garden plants, they grow about 2 feet tall and are very easy going plants that don’t need a lot of fussing over. They are perennial flowers which mean that they come back every year.
Liatris are another type of perennial butterfly garden plant that has an interesting shape to it, when it blooms it sends up spikes of purple “bottle brush” looking flowers. The butterflies in my garden really seem to enjoy them.
You can also choose butterfly garden plants that do double duty as both a nectar source and a host plant for the butterfly’s caterpillars. Asters, Snapdragons, and Members of the Milkweed Family, such as Butterfly Weed will serve this purpose very well.
The list goes on and on, butterfly garden plants all prefer full sun, and an average type of garden soil, adding organic material to your soil is always a good way to increase your soil’s fertility, and that makes any butterfly garden plants grow better. As far as colors go, the butterflies seem to most enjoy the butterfly garden plants that have red, orange, yellow, pink and purple flowers. However they also really enjoy the white butterfly bushes in my garden. So just decide which butterfly garden plants grow best in your area, and get busy building your own butterfly garden.
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