Attract Butterflies and Hummingbirds with Columbine!

With beautiful bell-shaped flowers, Columbine is an excellent garden perennial with many colorful hybrid varieties to choose from. Its distinctive, bell-shaped, spurred flowers, bloom from mid-spring to early summer. Columbine self-seeds prolifically giving you many volunteer seedlings. With a wide choice of hybrid varieties, colors range from light pastels to bright yellow, red, orange and purple selections. The plant’s foliage has an attractive lacy appearance. Intricate little flowers, they are most commonly a combination of red, peach, and yellow but …

butterfly garden filled with flowers that attract butterflies

Create A Butterfly Garden

Creating a thriving butterfly garden requires a few essential elements. To attract a wide variety of butterflies, it’s important to provide food, water, and shelter. Incorporate a mix of host plants for caterpillars and nectar plants for adult butterflies to meet their nutritional needs. Offer a water source by keeping a patch of soil or a shallow container of sand moist. Butterflies also appreciate shady spots to rest during hot days and flat stones in sunny areas where they can …