My Butterfly Garden

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. [...]

Butterfly plants are as varied as the butterflies that use them for food and as host plants. Butterflies are fairly flexible about the flowers that they use for nectar, but each butterfly has a certain variety of plant that they use as host plants to lay their eggs on, and that is usually the only [...]

One of the most dependable butterfly plants that I know of is the Butterfly Bush. Their colors are white, red, yellow, bi-color and varying shades of blue. Most of mine are white, and blue with a couple of reddish purple ones. I have been growing Butterfly Bushes for many years, I grew them in large [...]

There are many, many flowers to attract butterflies to your garden. They come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. They can be annuals(only last one year), or they may be perennials(come back every year. But they are all full sun flowers. Below is a short list of some of my personal favorites; but remember, there [...]