My Butterfly Garden

Blanket flowers are native wildflowers in the prairies of the western United States. They got their name because the flowers reminded the early settlers of the colorful blankets used by the Native American Indian tribes of the southwest. Their proper name is Gaillardia. Blanket flowers need full sun and good garden soil. They are related [...]

The summer months have gone and it is now late summer in the butterfly garden. I still see a lot of butterflies visiting the flowers. They are mostly skippers, the small, fast butterflies that zip around from flower to flower as if they are in a race. They are mostly feeding on the zinnias and [...]

Attracting butterflies to your garden is not a hard thing to do. Butterflies are usually attracted by brightly colored flowers that are flat topped like butterfly weed or ray-type flowers such as daisies. I have however, noticed a swallowtail butterfly feeding on a daylily bloom in my garden from time to time, that’s why I say [...]