Monday, June 12, 2006

Plants Butterflies LOVE


Butterflies visit gardens for two reasons: Nectar is their sustinance and they need a place where the female butterfly can lay her butterfly eggs. Baby butterflies (caterpillars) have a different diet than full grown butterflies of course. To avoid the unsightliness of your plants being noshed and nibbled on, plant caterpillar host plants somewhere in the background. Keep in mind that if you do not keep plants that are essential for butterflies to successfully hatch eggs in, your garden will not have very many butterflies.

Food For Butterflies:

• Ageratum
• Aster
• Bee Balm
• Black-Eyed Susan
• Butterfly Weed
• Chives
• Coneflower
• Daisy (Shasta)
• Daylily
• Delphinium
  
• Gayfeather
• Goldenrod
• Hollyhock
• Joe-Pye Weed
• Milkweed
• Mountain Mint
• Passion Flower
  
• Phlox
• Sage
• Sedum
• Thistles
• Verbena

Food For Caterpillars:

• Aster
• Black Cherry
  
• Carrot
  
• Cherry Laurel
• Dill
• Dogwood
• Elm
  
• Fennel
• Mustard plants
• Paw Paw
• Pearly Everlastings
• Pipevines
• Plantains
• Queen Anne’s Lace
• Sassafras
• Tulip tree
• Willows
  

Labels: butterflies

Posted by Krystal :: 2:07 AM ::