Creating A Garden Butterflies Will Love
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Attracting Butterflies To Your Garden
Butterflies are one of the most beautiful and delicate creatures in nature. I look forward to watching them flitting from flower to flower in my garden.
What plants or shrubs do butterflies really love, and what other things will attract them to your garden?
The goal of this lens is to help you create a garden that butterflies will be attracted to so that you too can enjoy the beauty and grace that butterflies will bring to your own yard.
Plants And Other Things That Butterflies Love
I have found that the butterfly bush, butterfly weed, azalea, lilac, marigold and impatiens are butterfly favorites and make for a lovely garden. I have two butterfly bushes in my garden and I have seen so many gorgeous butterflies on them.
Water is also a necessity in your butterfly garden. A birdbath, pond, or small pans filled with water and set a bit into the ground will keep your butterflies coming back.
Butterflies also like to rest, so a few strategically placed rocks in your garden is a good idea.
Hummingbird feeders also attract butterflies.They will eat from these feeders and you can enjoy watching the hummingbirds too!
Butterfly Items To Consider
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News
- Flowers, butterflies bloom in local garden
- A black swallowtail butterfly is perched on pink flowers. Mary Ann Ross raises butterflies from eggs until they are ready to be released into her garden, which will be featured in the June 10 Garden Walk. / Photo provided Mary Ann Ross pulls weeds from ...
- Students enjoy seeing butterflies cycle of life
- BY TINA PAPPAS TOTOWA ? Memorial School students participated recently in a three week long science activity that helped them discover the life cycle of a butterfly. Each class raised five Painted Lady bugs while learning all about metamorphism.
- Two Young Butterflies Discover Flower Garden In New Children's Book
- By Mel Fabrikant Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 08:11 PM EDT Written for children ages 3 to 8, ?The Butterfly Adventure? by Nancy Lorraine reveals the world of butterfly buddies who venture out and learn the value of friendship. In ?The Butterfly Adventure? ...
- Butterflies take to the air Thursday
- Hundreds of Eagle County third-graders will participate in the annual Butterfly Launch at noon today at Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail's Ford Park. VAIL, Colorado ? Thousands of butterflies will be taking to the air soon at America's highest ...
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AndyPo
Oct 18, 2011 @ 12:38 pm | delete
- Great lens and advice. I am very fortunate in that I live right next to a meadow with quite a few varieties of butterfly
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EMangl
Sep 6, 2011 @ 11:06 am | delete
- oh - and: have you tried to plant Oregano and/or Sedum ? also very magnetic to butterflies
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EMangl
Sep 6, 2011 @ 11:04 am | delete
- every year at the end of september i pick a few twigs of Buddleja and simply put it somewhere else (guerilla gardening) - next summer you can see already the progress on those butterfly magnets
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sousababy
Jun 19, 2011 @ 8:29 pm | delete
- Dearest Mary, Perhaps because I live in Canada, I was unable to view your video feed. I love butterflies. I really need to decide on how to plan my garden (or tell my man-servant how to do it - ha). I always loved lilacs and marigolds, glad they attract butterflies. Stay well, Rose
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