Add Butterfly Food and Nectar Plants in Your Garden

A butterfly garden not only is helpful in attracting the butterflies, but it also retains and encourages butterfly populations. Special plants which attract butterflies are to be grown in your garden. Even plants that provide food for caterpillars and those which are preferred by butterflies for laying eggs should also be included in the garden. Generally, they get attracted to colorful flowers and so many people prefer to choose colorful flowering plants. However, they even get attracted to the nectar produced by flowers.

Golden rod, asters and butterfly bush (Buddleia) are some of the examples of the butterfly nectar plants in the garden. Some of them like ironweed, milkweed, Joe pye weed, goldenrod, and various asters grow wild and attract butterflies. Butterfly weed, purple coneflowers and the New England aster are the most popular nectar bearing plants that butterflies love. It is enough if you just add groups of these plants in your yard to make it a beautiful butterfly garden. Even marigold, milkweed and oregano are the other top butterfly food or nectar plants. Apart from these, certain flowering shrubs such as blueberries, hollies, verbenas also attract butterflies. You can add perennial butterfly nectar plants like primrose, rock cress, sedum, daisy and bee balm which promotes butterflies to fly around your garden throughout the year.

When you are planning to make a butterfly garden, ensure that you select different kinds of plants with different flowers. This will attract more than one type of butterfly making your garden colorful and diversified. You can provide easy access to the butterflies by planting groups of same types of flowers together.