Create A Butterfly Garden

To create a successful butterfly garden certain key elements are needed. Providing food, water and shelter will attract the greatest variety of butterflies. A diverse combination of host and nectar plants will provide food for caterpillars and adults. Keep an area of soil or a flat container of sand moist as a water source. Butterflies do appreciate a shady spot to rest on hot days. Provide a few flat stones in the sun at the gardens edge for warming wings for flight. Below are plants recommended to attract these winged beauties.

Host

Nectar

Alcea Rosea Achillea
Amorpha Asclepias-Common Milkweed/Butterfly Weed
Antirrhinum Major Asters
Aquilegia Coreopsis
Artemisia Cosmos
Aster Echinacea
Baptisia Eupatorium-Boneset/Joe Pye
Cassia Lavandula
Chelone Liatris
Dill Monarda
Fennel-Bronze & Sweet Phlox
Grasses Rudbeckia
Lupinus Salvia
Malva Sedum
Petroselinum Solidago
Sedges Viola
Sedum Zinnia
Tagetes
Viola

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