Plants For Your Butterfly Garden

How do you create a butterfly garden? Simply put butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures to your garden. Delight your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but be sure to create a safe habitat for them. If there is a cat where you are planning to plant your butterfly garden, give it a second thought cats will kill the butterflys.

How you plan your the look of your butterfly garden is your choice. Typical points to consider are the size of your garden and the types of flowers and plants you want to grow. Make sure that you do not make the common mistake of picking a garden design that appeals to you, then relize that butterflies are not going to be attracted to the plants.

It is important to find out which plants and flowers will attract the species of butterflies. that live in your area. You can find any of this online
To create the kind of environment that they find attractive, you will also need water of some kind. A birdbath will look attractive and keep the butterflies up off the ground, away from stray cats or mischievous puppies. A saucer or dish attached to a post or tree will do well also.

When you plan your butterfly garden you want the colors of your plants to be in harmony. Remember that attracting butterflies is easy with the right plants, it is the "looking good" part that is hard so make sure your garden meshes. Butterflies are attracted to those flowers that have nectar rather than pollen, like honeysuckle, milkweed, summer lilac, Valerian, daisies, Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium), Purple Coneflower, Yellow Sage, day lilies and lavender.

Some people find it helpful to draw and color a layout of their butterfly gardening plan to see what the finished product would look like. Keep in mind that vibrant colors like red, yellow and orange will really stand out and may even seem showy. These colors have a greater impact against a strong green background. Cool colors such as blue and purple are soothing and toned down and would work better with a white contrast to create the look of freshness and brightness.