Butterfly Gardens: How to Make Your Own

Summer is on its way and butterflies are spreading their wings and taking flight. It can be a wondrous experience for us humans to watch them gracefully glide over our yards or on our flowers. Would like to draw them in closer to your home? I can tell you how. Just keep reading.

Creating a butterfly garden can be rather challenging, but its reward is well worth it. Butterfly gardens consist of beautiful flowers and bushes that will soon be swarmed in colorful-unique butterflies. You're taking your first step right now just by reading this article.

It's a good idea to research which kind of butterflies are most common in your area. This way you will have a good idea of what to plant in your garden. It does no good to plant something and find out it doesn't attract butterflies in your area.

Choose plants that will attract butterflies. There is a wide variety of plants available. A couple of the major plants that are most recommended "butterfly attracters" are: Heliotrope, Zinnia, Pentas, Bee Bomb, Butterfly Bush, etc...The list continues on. Many of these plants can be found at your local flower store or a flower catalog. They are mostly large plants that can grow to be a couple feet in height.

Choose some kind of host plant for your garden. These would be plants that will attract butterfly larvae. By choosing these plants, butterflies will continue to keep a colony within the garden, thus giving you an ever going supply of beauty. The two main plants that attract butterfly larvae are Milkweed and Parsley (Monarch and Black Swallow Tail caterpillars really appreciate these items.)

I would recommend planning your garden on a piece of paper. Give yourself a map of where certain plants will be planted and so for forth. This helps relieve stress on you when it comes time to plant.

The most important part of growing a butterfly garden is obviously the plants, so make sure you ask for plenty of detail about each plant you by. Lists for butterfly attracting plants can be found on Google.com. I would list them, but there are way too many to list.

I hope this gets you started and what you'll be looking for when growing a butterfly garden. Good luck to you and enjoy your butterflies!