My Butterfly Garden

A butterfly’s life cycle is a wondrous thing to see. It is one of the most fascinating, nearly magical things you can experience as a gardener. The butterfly’s life cycle begins when a butterfly finds a host plant to lay her eggs on. It has to be the right kind of plant or the caterpillar [...]

One of the most dependable butterfly plants that I know of is the Butterfly Bush. Their colors are white, red, yellow, bi-color and varying shades of blue. Most of mine are white, and blue with a couple of reddish purple ones. I have been growing Butterfly Bushes for many years, I grew them in large [...]

There are few things more interesting and intriguing to a butterfly gardener than the life cycle of a butterfly. It is only natural that you might want to witness the butterfly’s life cycle up close. Raising butterflies from caterpillars is a great way to do this. Butterfly caterpillars are very easy to capture and raise. [...]

There are many, many flowers to attract butterflies to your garden. They come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. They can be annuals(only last one year), or they may be perennials(come back every year. But they are all full sun flowers. Below is a short list of some of my personal favorites; but remember, there [...]

The best way to attract butterflies into your garden is to understand why a butterfly is attracted to certain conditions. Then you just need to provide those conditions, and you will attract butterflies to your yard. Some basic butterfly biology will also help you to understand the reasons behind various recommendations designed to attract butterflies [...]