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 [...]

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 [...]

Your butterfly garden design is a matter of personal taste as long as it contains the elements that butterflies are looking for, it makes no difference to the butterflies how the garden is laid out. The elements for a good butterfly garden design are these: 1) The butterfly garden design should be laid out in [...]

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, [...]