Enticing Butterflies to your Garden

I love Butterflies, they are one of my favorite insects. They come in a wide variety of colors and sizes. It is always nice to see butterflies in your yard, most of them are probably common to what ever area you happen to live in. But once in a while we get that very special treat of seeing a rare Butterfly that is much more scarce.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a yard that would help entice more butterflies and more varieties of butterflies to come to visit but also to stay a little longer.

The secret to doing this is what you have planted in your yard. Butterflies love certain plants because of their sweet smelling flowers and nectar that those plants produce. Below you will see many different types of Butterfly plants that will help attract them to your yard once they bloom.

Butterflies also love water and fruit too.

Butterfly Bush, lavender

What a pretty lavender colored flower on this bush, almost a light purple color. My daughter and I saw hundreds of butterflies hanging around a creek in Idaho, they gather on the wet mud...attracted to the moisture. We had to be very careful not to step on any of them.

Butterflies, Butterflies

Why do you gather in the mud?

What is this meeting about?

Are you thirsty?

Is this the way you date?

Butterfly, Butterfly tell me your secrets!

Butterflies love Oranges too! (Not that you need to feed them fruit.) But they also love flowers. The best way that I have found to bring in the Flutterbies, as my daughter used to call them, is to bring in the fragrant flowers that they love to get nectar from.

It is not hard at all as most of these shown below are perennials bloom in late summer when they butterflies take flight.

Coneflower Mix, Butterfly

These are late summer bloomers that the butterflies will love. Just when everything else is dying off your late summer flowers take off and entice the butterflies to stick around!

So fragrant is each bloom, they are very delicate like the butterflies that love to visit and sip the nectar. Azalea's come in many different shades of pink, purples coral, reds and white. Many are variegated too. Such beauty that bloom in the spring summer and fall.

Butterfly Plant, Hello Yellow

This flower loves the hot sun, how perfect is that for the summer we are having this year? They not only entice those pretty butterflies in but they are so fragrant the hummingbirds love them too! I have to get some of these. Don't you just love the name of this flower "Hello Yellow"!

Butterfly Bush, Flutterby Petite Blue Heaven

A ground cover that brings in butterflies and hummingbirds, that is so cool.

The gorgeous swallowtail butterfly and the beautiful plant, create a such eye candy for the cameras lens.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoy your flower garden this year and may you have butterflies lightly dancing around you!

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Linda