My Butterfly Garden

Common butterfly plants include perennials and annuals, flowering shrubs, and plants. Butterfly garden plants should be chosen so that their flowering times overlap and there are always flowers blooming from spring until the first frost. My favorite butterfly garden plants are Zinnias. They are so easy to grow and attract butterflies like nothing else. I [...]

Butterflies are attracted to several different flowers. Below are some of the ones that I have discovered. One of my favorite summertime flowers is Zinnias, and they are also one of the butterfly favorites too. Zinnias are annuals, so they only last a year. You will need to re-plant them each spring once the ground [...]

Butterfly flowers come in all sizes shapes and colors. There are perennial flowers that come back every year and annuals that need to be re-planted each spring. Below are some of my favorite butterfly flowers My number one butterfly flowers are the Zinnias. My mother grew Zinnias and now I always try to have at [...]

Before you can properly attract butterflies to your garden you should probably get some background information on them. What follows are some facts and figures about butterflies. Hopefully, this will help you understand the ” hows and whys”  of attracting butterflies to your garden.   Butterflies belong to a group of insects named Lepidoptera, which [...]

Butterfly Gardening is something anyone can do, all you need is a love of butterflies, and a really sunny spot in your garden that is protected from the harsh winds. My love of butterfly gardening started when I was a child, I would stand very still in my mother’s zinnia garden and watch mesmmerized as [...]