My Butterfly Garden

Building a Monarch butterfly garden is not hard to do, just plant their favorite plants. The ones that they use for nectar as well as plants they use for host plants. When it comes to food plants; there are several flowers they use for nectar such as Zinnias, Butterfly Bushes, Butterfly Weed, Goldenrods, Asters, Thistles, [...]

Monarch butterflies are totally fascinating to me, this butterfly actually migrates like some birds do. They fly south for the winter and fly back each spring. Monarch butterflies have to made of tough stuff to do all of that flying. Most butterflies are so delicate that a strong wind will literally rip their wings off. [...]

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 [...]

Butterfly gardens are so pretty with all the butterflies flying around and the flowers in all of their colors. Why would you want to add butterfly garden ornaments? The same reasons that cause you to put ornaments in your regular garden will prompt you to add butterfly garden ornaments to this garden as well. We [...]