My Butterfly Garden

Creating a butterfly garden is not difficult to do. Simply put your ideas down on  paper, and put them into action. You will find that in no time you have created a beautiful butterfly garden that will bring you pleasure for years to come. When you first start creating a butterfly garden, the possibilities of [...]

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 [...]

I have made myself a home butterfly garden, it is not very fancy like the commercial butterfly gardens, but it does have plenty of the butterfly’s favorite flowers, and every summer I can count on having many of the “winged wonders” flying around my home. Home butterfly gardens are so easy to make and can [...]

I have several Black Swallowtail butterflies that visit my garden every summer. I am certain that they are not the same butterflies, because butterflies don’t usually live that long. Somehow they always seem to find their way to the butterfly bushes and the zinnias. I believe that they like them better than any of the [...]

The host plants of the Spicebush swallowtail are the spice bush; whose fancy Latin name is Lindera Benzoin, and the Sassafras tree, its fancy Latin name is Sassafras albidum. The Spicebush is a large shrub often found in the woods of the Eastern half of the United States from Maine to Texas, it grows on [...]