My Butterfly Garden

Cosmos is a common butterfly garden plant. It is native to South and Central America. It is an annual flower, which means that the Cosmos only lasts for one summer. It is really easy to grow and will bloom all summer long. It is a fast growing plant that can get up to 4 or [...]

One of the best butterfly plants that I know of is the Butterfly Weed;  whose formal name is (Asclepias tuberosa). It is a perennial wildflower that is native to the eastern United States. You can usually find the Butterfly Weed growing in sunny, dry open fields, its range stretches from New England south to Florida [...]

  Lantana is commonly used in butterfly gardens, because it attracts so many butterflies and hummingbirds. it is a beautiful plant that blooms continuously all summer and fall.   Lantana is native to the tropics. It has many forms, some are shrubby and others are trailing. It has become naturalized in Florida and in some [...]

Butterflies are often attracted to a butterfly garden for two reasons, food in the form of flower nectar and the proper conditions in a garden that butterflies need to live and reproduce. Good examples of these proper conditions include puddles or moist areas that butterflies use to get nutrients, sheltered, sunny spots to bask in, [...]

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 [...]