Five ways to bring more butterflies into your garden

Want to attract more butterflies to your garden? Use these five simple design tips.

1. Provide shelter for butterflies

If your garden is well ventilated, provide ventilation. Pink (Syringa spp. And hybrids) is good as a hedge because it provides food in the spring and shelter for the rest of the season. Walls and fences reduce wind speed and create a good backdrop for plants.

2. Create a drinking pool

Some butterflies take nutrients and salts from muddy ponds through their long, straw-like mouth areas. You can make a permanent mud puddle with a plastic or terra-cotta saucer. Fill it with half sand and half compost. Pour water and put a ripe banana on top of it and see how many butterflies are standing.

3. A start in the sun

Butterflies can rest and sleep in wooded areas and fly well only when their wings are warm and dry. A rock in a sunny spot is a good place to prepare them to fly one day.

4. Family-friendly place

Butterflies lay their eggs on specific plants, so caterpillars will have plenty of food once they hatch. If you want to see caterpillars make a chrysalis and emerge as butterflies, grow caterpillar-like larvae: Milkweed (Asclepias spp.) Kings, parsley (Petroselinum grispum) Black Swallowtails, and Snaptzrax (Snaptraz)

5. Go easy on sprays

The safest way to get rid of unwanted pests without harming the butterflies is to rub your hands with pesticide soap and spot treatment.

Butterfly Garden Project

Plant a butterfly garden

No one will say that the butterfly garden is boring. Aside from the bright color, another thing you can notice in all the flowers below is the size. The large flowers, especially those with flattened shapes, are easy for butterflies to land and eat. The scent helps to bring the butterflies inside. Plant the flowers in groups of three to five (or more).

Low maintenance beauty

In the slideshow, we will see the optimal plants for the five butterflies. In the diagram below, we will show you how to combine some of them together to create a beautiful butterfly garden. But don’t feel locked out just inside these plants - if you want taller goldenrod or a different zinnia color, go ahead. Butterflies do not like the cultivation at all! And even such a garden requires minimal maintenance. There are not many types of plants, so you do not have to remember different plant care tips. Instead, you get plenty of time to pull up a chair, lean in the sun, and watch the butterflies admiring your garden.

Take a look at the butterfly garden below:

The wide brick edges keep the garden tidy and provide the perfect place for butterflies to stay in the sun on a cold, foggy morning. Evergreen shrubs such as the privacy fence and the 'Holmstrup' arborvitae provide some protection from the wind for gentle butterflies. Mix annuals suitable for butterflies like Ginnie in a perennial bed. You can change them to a different look every year. In early spring the butterfly bush cut back hard. By late summer, it will be back in full swing and ready to delight you and the butterflies!