My Butterfly Garden

Phlox is a family of plants that butterflies find very attractive, which it makes a good choice for your butterfly garden. It is easy to care for, and looks beautiful when it is in bloom. Phlox is pronounced “flocks”. Phlox can be a low growing plant which is called Creeping Phlox or Moss Phlox. This [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]