My Butterfly Garden

Cosmos is a common butterfly garden plant. It is native to South and Central America. It is an annual flower, which means that the Cosmos only lasts for one summer. It is really easy to grow and will bloom all summer long. It is a fast growing plant that can get up to 4 or [...]

One of the best butterfly plants that I know of is the Butterfly Weed;  whose formal name is (Asclepias tuberosa). It is a perennial wildflower that is native to the eastern United States. You can usually find the Butterfly Weed growing in sunny, dry open fields, its range stretches from New England south to Florida [...]

  Lantana is commonly used in butterfly gardens, because it attracts so many butterflies and hummingbirds. it is a beautiful plant that blooms continuously all summer and fall.   Lantana is native to the tropics. It has many forms, some are shrubby and others are trailing. It has become naturalized in Florida and in some [...]

Butterflies are often attracted to a butterfly garden for two reasons, food in the form of flower nectar and the proper conditions in a garden that butterflies need to live and reproduce. Good examples of these proper conditions include puddles or moist areas that butterflies use to get nutrients, sheltered, sunny spots to bask in, [...]

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 [...]