What can I plant in my garden to attract Butterflies?
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Go online and look up the butterfly bush, its beautiful and the butterflies love it
http://www.butterflybush.com/2.html
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I put in a few different types of Azalea bushes in my garden last year..and I was amazed at how much they had attracted butterflies and hummingbirds!! So maybe you could try Azalea bushes!
I put in a few different types of Azalea bushes in my garden last year..and I was amazed at how much they had attracted butterflies and hummingbirds!! So maybe you could try Azalea bushes!
Any flowering plant that produces pollen will attract them.
Rev. Steven
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Buddleia davidii, commonly known as the butterfly bush.
Butterfly bush likes well drained, average soil. They thrive in fairly dry conditions once established. Roots may perish in wet soil. Butterfly bushes are semi-evergreen in climates with mild winters. They may be cut back to the ground and will re-emerge from roots in their northernmost range, but will not reach the maximum size they do in warmer climes. It is advisable to cut back the shrubs in any case, since flowers are usually larger and more prolific on new wood. Avoid the use of insecticides around buddleias. Pinch off spent flower clusters to prolong blooming.
Butterfly bush is the perfect foundation plant for a butterfly garden. The larger cultivars should be placed behind other shrubs and blooming annuals and perennials. Dark flowered varieties show up quite well against a light background. Plant alongside pentas (Pentas lanceolata), lantana (Lantana camara) and zinnias Zinnia elegans) for non-stop butterfly activity, and find a place nearby for parsley (Petroselinum crispum), passion vine (Passiflora incarnata) and other butterfly larval food plants. See Floridata's Butterfly Gallery for more ideas.
Butterflies frequent my lilac bushes. Butterfly bush is a great choice. Milkweed is technically a weed but monarchs LOVE it and I love the scent of the flowers. When my sage flowers, I get a lot of butterflies and bees on it. Grow parsley to attract swallowtails.
Put in SnapDragons and Lilac Bushes, on the Lilac you will get TONS OF BEES as well as Butterflys, and on the SnapDragons you will get Butterflys and Hummingbirds
Ohio State University Extension site offers a fact sheet Called "Perennials for Specific Sites and Uses" that you should find useful. Check out their other fact sheets. They offer many and are very informative.
Flowers with beauitful colours, nice scent and the plant should also have a nector.
The colours attract them, as will the scent and they feed off the nector.
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What zone are you in?
In 9b, I had lantana in my yard. There was not one minute of the day that there were not at least three butterflies around it (and they didn't lay eggs on it). Neighbors always commented on the number of butterflies I had in my yard -and they were always on the lantana.
I like these butterfly plants-Yarrow, Goatsbeard, Butterfly Weed, Mums, Moonbeam Coriopsis, Purple Coneflower, Garden Phlox, Black-eyed Suzy and Autumn Joy Sedum