My Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

I have several Black Swallowtail butterflies that visit my garden every summer. I am certain that they are not the same butterflies, because butterflies don’t usually live that long. Somehow they always seem to find their way to the butterfly bushes and the zinnias. I believe that they like them better than any of the [...]

The host plants of the Spicebush swallowtail are the spice bush; whose fancy Latin name is Lindera Benzoin, and the Sassafras tree, its fancy Latin name is Sassafras albidum. The Spicebush is a large shrub often found in the woods of the Eastern half of the United States from Maine to Texas, it grows on [...]

One of the best butterfly plants that I know of  is the Butterfly Weed;  it’s 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, the range for Butterfly Weed goes from New England south to Florida [...]