Butterfly Garden Plants Wisconsin

Butterfly gardening involves planning your garden to attract retain and encourage butterfly populations.
Butterfly garden plants wisconsin. Many don t realize it but butterfly weed is actually in the milkweed family so it counts as a host plant for monarchs. Here are some tips. Butterfly gardens of wisconsin appleton. A butterfly garden does not have to be big.
You can plant a butterfly garden and attract these wildflowers with wings to your own backyard. Several catalogs and web sites indicate which plants are good butterfly nectar sources and list height and bloom times provide color photos etc. Flowers of similar colors grouped together are more attractive to both butterflies and the gardener how to plan for and manage a butterfly garden with suggested host plants for caterpillars and adult butterflies. Most common annual and perennial plants have little or no flower nectar thus many flower gardens will not have butterflies.
But it s not just for monarchs. Attract butterflies to your garden with a wide variety of plants including butterfly bush. We had a very successful monarch butterfly raising project for the months of june and july 2020. Here s how we can help save the butterflies and have a better yard while we re at it.
Doris fons of wisconsin has planted her garden to welcome butterflies in every stage of their development. Address phone number butterfly gardens of wisconsin reviews. Wisconsin wi appleton. Plenty of other.
Her hospitality provides spots for sunning and laying eggs host plants for hungry caterpillars shallow water sources and safe harbor when the. Butterflies lay their eggs on their own preferred host plant but will feed on many different nectar plants. The quaint town of appleton on this segway tour that takes you to the location of the world s first hydroelectric plant the paper discovery center and along the fox river br br take. They are cold blooded so they use the sun to warm up their bodies.
Much like a pollinator garden a butterfly garden is a great way to attract and provide for these beautiful insects there s a little more to it than planting a few colorful flowers though. In fact it has been found that butterflies prefer scattered groupings of butterfly plants rather than one large butterfly garden. We would like to thank the many monarch butterfly supporters that purchased monarch kits. Our 2020 butterfly gardens season is now closed.
Butterfly gardens can be any size a few containers in a sunny spot small beds or large open fields. Many more plants than those listed above are good nectar sources. Each may the friends of the arboretum sponsors a native plant. Welcome to butterfly gardens of wisconsin.
We look forward to a great 2021 season at our gardens.