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Butterfly Garden

You can create a great butterfly garden by planting certain types of flowers in your garden, as this article explains ...

There are many types of gardens, with the most popular types being vegetable and flower gardens. When it comes to flowers, there are hundreds of varieties of flowers you can plant, and the types you choose will be decided by your personal tastes, and the climate where you live. There are some who plant flowers that are known to draw butterflies. These are called, as you may have guessed, butterfly gardens.

My grandmother had a butterfly garden before they became a popular thing to do. I remember as a child I would sit patiently near her garden as she worked, waiting for the butterflies to come along and visit her special butterfly garden. I was often disappointed however, because at my young age, I didn’t realize that while these gardens do draw butterflies, there wouldn’t be hundreds hanging out there all the time like I imagined. I can’t remember the specific flowering plants she used for her butterfly garden, but I do remember that it was beautiful. She gave it as much care as she did her vegetable garden, and would sit out there in her very limited spare time to enjoy her hard work. Her butterfly garden did attract butterflies, and I always thought one day I would have a one of my own.

I don’t have one yet, but I still want to have one some day soon. If you would like to have your own butterfly garden, you can find out what flowers to plant by doing a search online. You can also talk with an employee at any garden shop, and they should be able to tell you what you should put into a butterfly garden, and what you should avoid. Once you have it planted, make sure you have a nice place to sit nearby to enjoy the garden.

If your butterfly garden isn’t drawing butterflies as you wish it would, consider giving it a little help before you give up. Milkweeds are known, at least in the northeast, as a place to find Monarch butterflies. The larva eat this plant, and then attach to it when the make their cocoon. If you have some of this nearby, you will have a head start on getting butterflies to visit your butterfly garden.  Also consider where you have planted your garden. If it is near a busy road, or where children play often, the butterflies may not warm up to the area.

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