My Butterfly Garden

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

One of the many ways of attracting butterflies is to plant Butterfly Flowers. Butterflies like flowers that have short nectar tubes, such as marigolds and Zinnias.These short tubes makes it easier for them to feed. They are also very fond of flat topped flowers like the butterfly weed and Queen Anne’s Lace. Whichever butterfly flowers [...]