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Attract Butterflies

Butterfly gardening has become one of the most popular hobbies today. What could bring more joy than a beautiful butterfly fluttering around your garden? Here are some tips and plants to make your garden especially butterfly-friendly.

Plant your butterfly garden in a sunny location (5-6 hours each day), but sheltered from the winds. Butterflies need the sun to warm themselves, but they won't want to feed in an area where they are constantly fighting the wind to stay on the plants. It is also a good idea to place a few flat stones in your sunny location so the butterflies can take a break while warming up.

Butterflies need water just like we do. Keep a mud puddle damp in a sunny location, or fill a bucket with sand and enough water to make the sand moist.

Flowering Plants

  • Babylon® Verbena
  • Broadway Lights Leucanthemum
  • Cabana® Series Sutera
  • Garnet Brocade Sedum
  • Intensia® Phlox
  • Karalee™ Petite Pink Gaura
  • Luscious Lantana
  • Sapphire Aster
  • Snowstorm® Sutera
  • Stratosphere™ Pink Picotee and White Gaura
  • Superbena® Verbena
  • Supertunia® Petunia
  • Tukana™ Verbena
  • Tapien® Verbena
  • White Lace lberis

ColorChoice® Flowering Shrubs

  • English Butterfly Series™ Buddleia
  • Hibiscus "Rose of Sharon"
  • Hydrangea (White Dome®)
  • Little Henry® Itea
  • Petit Blue™ Caryopteris
  • Pink Chablis™ Caryopteris
  • Sunshine Blue® Caryopteris
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