My Butterfly Garden

  Butterfly larva are also known as caterpillars and they are the beginning stages of a butterfly’s life cycle. Butterfly larva hatch out from eggs that are laid on host plants by the adult butterfly. Butterflies are very particular about which plants they lay their eggs on. Some butterflies will only lay their eggs on [...]

Agastache, pronounced [ah-gas-TAH-kee] is also known as Anise Hyssop or Licorice Mint, it gets it’s common names because the spikes of the purple-blue flowers smell like anise or licorice. It is a great flower to grow in the butterfly garden, because it will produce large amounts of nectar for both the butterflies and the bees. [...]

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 [...]

Butterfly plants are as varied as the butterflies that use them for food and as host plants. Butterflies are fairly flexible about the flowers that they use for nectar, but each butterfly has a certain variety of plant that they use as host plants to lay their eggs on, and that is usually the only [...]

Your butterfly garden design is a matter of personal taste as long as it contains the elements that butterflies are looking for, it makes no difference to the butterflies how the garden is laid out. The elements for a good butterfly garden design are these: 1) The butterfly garden design should be laid out in [...]