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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the many ways of attracting butterflies is to plant Butterfly Flowers. Butterflies like flowers that have short nectar tubes, such as marigolds and Zinnias.These short tubes makes it easier for them to feed. They are also very fond of flat topped flowers like the butterfly weed and Queen Anne’s Lace. Whichever butterfly flowers [...]