Butterfly Garden Flowers

These plants have fuzzy grey stems topped with brightly colored flowers that look like little pompoms.

Butterfly garden flowers. Bachelor s buttons also called cornflowers are an adorable flower to have in your butterfly garden. Over the last 25 years we have worked with literally thousands of butterfly flowers in our 20 acre garden. You can cut it almost all the way down to the ground. These plants are generally nectar producing flowers.

If your butterfly bush starts to get big prune it back in winter or early spring. Butterfly gardens attract butterflies through the use of annuals perennials and shrubs butterflies love. Just a large open sun filled area some nectar flowers for adult butterflies some food sources for caterpillars shelter from extreme weather a shallow butterfly pool and a few good sunning rocks. Butterfly gardens are full sun gardens that are filled with plants that attract butterflies.

Butterfly garden plants butterflies don t need anything fancy or expensive. Most of the butterfly plants listed below attract monarchs but some will also attract other butterflies hummingbirds bees and moths. Nectar producing flowers are usually beautiful so you have the double benefit of attracting butterflies and adding beauty to your yard. Planting a wide range of nectar and host plants is the best strategy for attracting the largest number of butterfly species.

Butterflies may be attracted to the garden by a large patch of bright flowers but they will linger longer if there are also areas that provide shelter water sun and a diverse group of plants that imitate the way plants grow in the wild. These are the plants and butterfly flowers both native and non native that have attracted the most butterflies to our garden and to other gardens across north america. Butterfly bush is a shrub that s typically covered in butterflies all summer long. An easy care shrub it features fragrant flowers in shades of blue purple and white.

Butterfly gardening involves planning your garden to attract retain and encourage butterfly populations. Butterfly bushes buddleia or buddleja are large fast growing shrubs whose flowers are irresistible to butterflies. Buddleias are easy care plants but they re invasive in some areas. Although we garden in the south the list below of butterfly garden plants is for the entire us and includes butterfly flowers that can be grown in the northeast midwest southwest and pacific northwest.

A butterfly garden provides beauty not just in its flowers but in the fluttering hovering and dancing butterflies it attracts.