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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