Backyard Butterfly Garden
Once you ve installed your landscaping according to plan have a little fun.
Backyard butterfly garden. Welcome to libby breitenbaugh s butterfly garden. I have both nectar and host plants. Just imagine colorful butterflies flitting around in your flower garden moving from one bloom to the next and creating a beautiful show just for you.
My suggestions is to start out small. These details help make your landscape unique. Designing a perfect butterfly garden butterfly houses and farms if you have a place in your yard and would like to assist in the conservation efforts for the most beautiful creatures in the world then you will certainly want to create a butterfly garden.
Don t be so formal that you forget to be creative maureen says. Backyard butterfly gardening is happiness. You ll need to regularly pull up volunteers.
Welcome the beauty of colorful butterflies to your backyard by creating a special habitat for them. Butterfly hummingbird garden design for the home garden landscaping designs as pleasing to our eyes as it is to its winged visitors this garden shimmers in scarlet purple orange and yellow the vibrant colors most attractive to. Let s look at some of the easiest to grow plants for your butterfly garden best plants for butterfly gardens.
The one shrub in the butterfly garden design is commonly called butterfly bush for good reason it lures butterflies of all sorts. My garden brings me so much joy. You need to realize these were laid out by professionals and are tended to by armies of volunteers and employees.
Whether you devote a small corner of your garden or a. My butterfly garden is mostly perennials with a few annuals. Butterfly bush buddleia is an obvious choice for a butterfly garden but keep in mind that this plant is pretty aggressive in the landscape.
How to design a backyard butterfly garden. When planning your butterfly garden remember that these insects are cold blooded and need the warmth of the sun especially in the morning. Most will prefer flower that are planted in full sun.
I have a medium size butterfly garden that is three years old and very much a work in progress. Add a whimsical element like a butterfly island birdbath or sculpture. When first thinking about building a butterfly garden most people have visions of the gardens at the zoo or a favorite municipal garden center.
On the plus side butterfly bushes offer nectar over a long period if you keep pruning off the spent blooms. I live in irmo south carolina. Rocks in this butterfly garden are convenient perches for butterflies to sun themselves and a birdbath provides water.
