My Butterfly Garden

The summer months have gone and it is now late summer in the butterfly garden. I still see a lot of butterflies visiting the flowers. They are mostly skippers, the small, fast butterflies that zip around from flower to flower as if they are in a race. They are mostly feeding on the zinnias and [...]

Attracting butterflies to your garden is not a hard thing to do. Butterflies are usually attracted by brightly colored flowers that are flat topped like butterfly weed or ray-type flowers such as daisies. I have however, noticed a swallowtail butterfly feeding on a daylily bloom in my garden from time to time, that’s why I say [...]

Butterfly gardening is an excellent way to connect with nature, having butterflies around can add such beauty and wonder to your yard or garden. They are always welcome visitors during the summer months, and they are very easy to attract. Simply plant some nectar producing flowers and the butterflies will come. It seems that new [...]

Creating a butterfly garden is not difficult to do. Simply put your ideas down on  paper, and put them into action. You will find that in no time you have created a beautiful butterfly garden that will bring you pleasure for years to come. When you first start creating a butterfly garden, the possibilities of [...]

There are 2 basic things that most butterflies are searching for when they visit your butterfly garden. They are searching for food, usually in the form of nectar from the butterfly flowers, and they are also looking for a place to lay their eggs.  Butterflies are not very particular about the flowers they get nectar [...]