Mar 25 2010
Plants That Attract Butterflies
There are many plants that attract butterflies.
How do you know which ones to grow in your garden? Well, I guess it would depend on the kinds of butterflies that you want to attract to your garden. Then it is a simple matter to use the plants that attracts the butterflies you want.
Personally, I like all butterflies, the more the merrier. I plant a wide variety of plants that attract butterflies so I will get the biggest variety of butterflies to visit me in my butterfly garden.
One of my favorites is the Zinnia flower it is a great all around butterfly plant to use in your butterfly garden. It is an annual flower that needs to re-planted every year , but it is a very easy to grow plant that will attract butterflies, and it will also bloom all summer long. You will see all kinds of butterflies on them.
The Butterfly Bush is another good all round plant that attracts several different kinds of butterflies. It blooms from mid to late summer, the blooms are really beautiful and mine is usually covered in Tiger Swallowtails, Monarch butterflies, and several other kinds of butterflies as well.
Monarch butterflies are attracted by members of the milkweed family so I use the orange Butterfly Weed plant to attract the Monarch butterfly. It is pretty much care free once you get it started. It comes back every year, and it is a very pretty plant, the fact that it attracts Monarch butterflies is a bonus!
Wildflowers are great plants that attract butterflies, but unfortunately they don’t fit in a normal garden setting, they grow leggy; and will quickly overwhelm the cultivated varieties of butterfly plants and you will be left with a weedy-looking patch of flowers. My solution was to have a butterfly meadow in a corner of my butterfly garden, so I could let the wildflowers take over and not have to worry about it. Wild asters, wild verbena, goldenrod and daisies are allowed to grow free and the butterflies love it.
Plants that attract butterflies are as varied as the butterflies they attract, if you want to attract a certain kind of butterfly; do your research and grow that butterfly’s plant in large patches so the butterflies can find them, and you will have the butterfly garden of your dreams.
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