Plant a Garden to Attract Butterflies

I absolutely love butterflies. They are so lovely as they float through my yard and garden, offering up an almost ethereal feeling when you see them wafting by on slowly lifting wings.

You can easily attract more of those butterflies that we all love to watch and photograph just by paying a bit of attention to what you are planiting in your garden.

The Butterfly Garden is a lot more about the plants than it is about how you lay it out or design it although these things are somewhat important too.

The Mourning Cloak Butterfly

The types of flowers and plants that attract certain butterflies are typically going to be native to your area and will attract butterflies to breed, to mate and to lay their eggs in the area if you plant them, and you’re going to find that myriad butterflies will wing their way to your garden to sip on the cup of nectar that your plants are affording them.

You can also use this kind of planning and implementation to landscape nearly any area of your yard or garden so long as you remember the most important aspect of it, which is to serve them up plants they can use as food sources and which will offer them a good place to lay eggs.

One thing you might want to consider would be to hide the areas that you lay out with plants that butterflies like to lay eggs on, because these plants are going to see some heavy munching and as such are going to take some holes and problems that might make them seem at times, and to some gardeners, unsightly.

Monarch Butterflies are among the most beautiful

Butterflies are part of the environment in nearly every country in the world and as such, planting native plants for those areas, can create a natural habitat for the butterflies that will give back a bit of what we’ve taken by our urbanization.

The habitats that butterflies need have become more and more rare as we raise more homes and build more factories and in many cases, by so doing, remove the plants that they need to survive and breed.

It’s relatively easy to plant to attract certain butterflies that you like the best, just by researching what they like to eat, plant wise and to find out what type plants they lay eggs on so that at least a part of the garden is caterpillar friendly too.

Your butterfly garden can be nearly any size, down to somthing so small as a planter on the patio or a windowbox that affords them suitable flowers to provide nectar that will sustain them.
One way to begin to attract butterflies is to plant a few native plants that you’ve seen butterflies light on when out on a walk or hike.
Remember what they appeared to like the most and order seeds from that plant from one of the many native plant supply houses.
You might also consider leaving a corner of your yard or garden to simply grow to seed,  and reproduce without mowing or disturbing it so that it goes to native plants which will also require little care, as they are accustomed to the environment in which it is growing.
Adult butterflies will remain in the garden longer and will lay their eggs more readily if the plants on which they normally lay eggs are there along with those they consider to be food plants.

One thing that you will need and want to consider is a more natural method of targeted pest control. If you are planting for butterflies, harsh pesticides will not only prevent the butterflies from appearing but will actively harm them if they do so.

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