My Butterfly 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 [...]

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 [...]

The Butterfly Weed as it is known in Georgia where I grew up grew wild in the open fields around our house. It is a colorful member of the milkweed family, Butterfly Weed is also known as Asclepias Tuberosa. It has a bright orange flower head that will attract several different kinds of butterflies, but [...]

My favorite butterfly plant is the annual flower called the Zinnia. My mother used to grow Zinnias in the summertime when I was growing up, and the butterflies were everywhere! I believe it must be one of their favorite butterfly plants too, the way they are always around them. I guess that is when I [...]