My Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

Friends sometimes ask me, “What do butterflies eat?” Butterflies generally feed on the nectar from many different kinds of flowers. There are some butterflies that only feed on rotting fruit, and some even feed on bird droppings. I guess there is no accounting for tastes even when it comes to feeding butterflies! In my garden, [...]

Agastache, pronounced [ah-gas-TAH-kee] is also known as Anise Hyssop or Licorice Mint, it gets it’s common names because the spikes of the purple-blue flowers smell like anise or licorice. It is a great flower to grow in the butterfly garden, because it will produce large amounts of nectar for both the butterflies and the bees. [...]

Butterfly plants are as varied as the butterflies that use them for food and as host plants. Butterflies are fairly flexible about the flowers that they use for nectar, but each butterfly has a certain variety of plant that they use as host plants to lay their eggs on, and that is usually the only [...]