A successful butterfly garden will provide food and a home for them for a lifetime. Let’s look at the many flowers that bring those majestic butterflies to us
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Feeding and helping them grow
Flowers they will call home.
Feeding and helping them grow
These are the flowers that help those enchanting butterflies grow and thrive in a safe environment.
Make sure to provide food for the caterpillars to transform into pupa. Milkweed is best for these little ones. To have butterflies we must first have caterpillars!!!!
Milkweed Seed Packs
Snapdragons are gorgeous and provide nectar for those sweet butterflies. They deserve the best. After all they do provide us with stunning beauty!
Snap dragons
If you want to focus on Monarch butterflies then plant you a Miss Molly butterfly bush!
'Miss Molly' - Butterfly Bush - Buddleia x
They attract many pollinators and love the sun!
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Flowers they will call home.
Let's look at specific flowers that attract butterflies and give them a beautiful home!
It's a shrub that grows beautiful flowers. It's fast growing and low maintenance.
Butterfly bush
Very colorful but will attract bees as well as butterflies. Pick those dead flowers off to make room for fresh blooms!
Marigold - Annuals - Garden Flowers
Those butterflies will love the company they have getting nectar from this flower. These are a hummingbird favorite as well!
Salvia - Sage Plants For Sale
Oh the caterpillars love the greenery on these and the butterflies love the nectar! It's a win win!!!
Sunflower Seeds | Shop 63 Varieties
These are a perfect resting place for butterflies
Buttonbush Seedlings for Sale (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
These are low maintenance and self seed so they will reappear every year!
Cornflower Plants
These are a butterfly magnet but can also be used dried out as a room fragrance or used in recipes!!!!
Lavender Flowers - Wholesale Bulk Flowers
Available in many colors. Will need to be divided since the spread quickly.
Daylily Roots & Bareroots - Breck's
Should be planted in early spring or fall since they love cool weather. They can flower almost all year long
Pansy - Annuals - Garden Flowers
They bloom all summer long into early fall. Plant in full sun
Shasta Daisy Perennials at Lowes.com
Late season bloomer known for its flowers and medicinal benefits
Joe Pye Weed Plants For Sale | Eupatorium purpureum
