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 [...]

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, [...]

Butterfly Garden plants come in all types and colors so there is no trouble finding butterfly garden plants, the hardest part is trying to decide which butterfly garden plants you will use in your garden to attract butterflies.   One of my personal favorite butterfly garden plants are the Zinnia flowers. They come in so many [...]

Garden plants growing in your yard is a great pastime, and it adds a lot of value to your property. It is not hard to do, and having garden plants will increase the enjoyment you feel when you get to spend time outdoors. Garden plants need full sun to grow and flower their best. What [...]

Agastache, pronounced [ah-gas-TAH-kee] is also known as Anise Hyssop or Licorice Mint, it gets it’s common names because the spikes of the purple-blue flowers smell like anise or licorice. It is a great flower to grow in the butterfly garden, because it will produce large amounts of nectar for both the butterflies and the bees. [...]