It
will be amazing if your garden is full of colorful flowers, full of fragrance
and the butterflies are enhancing the charm of your garden. Your garden will be
not less than a paradise if it all has these combinations. Therefore, if you
want to have butterflies in your garden, then you must know the flowers, which
are liked by them. Butterflies waving from flower to flower will carry your
garden to a new life. This life is more colorful and attractive to people
visiting the gardens.
What is important to have the butterfly gardens?
Butterflies
are one of the beautiful and most interesting creatures on Earth. Before
planting the butterfly garden, you must know about some information about the
butterflies. The plants that are liked by the butterflies are the one from
which the butterflies get their food. Butterflies love to lay eggs and live in
the gardens among the flowers. There are various sizes of butterfly gardens. It
depends upon the number of flower species you have in your garden.
Start with a research to know about the kinds
of butterflies present in your locality. Make a list of all those butterflies
and write down the number of flowers upon which these butterflies are
attracted. The plants must be native to your area so that they can adopt in
your climatic conditions.
Now
you have to add your interest and liking. You like either tall growing plant
or shrubs. Obviously, the garden first must appeal you and make yourself
satisfied. You must know the growing patterns of the flower either they are
annuals or perennials. Make the design of your garden in such a way that
annuals and perennials plants must be best fitted.
Basic needs of butterfly garden:
Attractive butterflies
can be a welcome by giving some addition to your garden. Butterflies are
welcomed not just for their beauty but they also play an important role in
pollinating the flowers. There are certain flowers from which butterflies get
nectar, some of them are those on which they lay eggs.
·
The type of plant and its color:
Some butterflies
are attracting towards some specific colors. Mostly yellow, pink and red colors
appeal the flowers. Cluster flowers are more important to attract the
butterflies.
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Plants good in nectar:
Plants
need full sunlight to have good quantity of nectars. Plants with good quantity
of nectars attract more butterflies for food. Thus, they not only get the food
but also pollinate the flowers. Butterflies like to visit the flowers for food
in the sun. It shows that plants must be in the sun so that the flowers attract
the butterflies with best location and good quantity of nectars.
·
Pattern of planting:
Try
to plant the flowers by proper planning. When the annuals finish the flowering
then the perennial flowers must be there to attract the butterflies. In short,
your garden must have some flowers during the completely growing season.
The
pair of butterflies and the flowers is perfect. Establish your garden in such a
way to have this perfection, so that the visitors can enjoy the beauty of
nature in your garden.
