These gardens attract butterflies that flit and float into the area. The butterfly garden is shaped like a butterfly and the plants in the garden are butterfly attractors. You will find the butterfly bushes in the adjoining perennial bed. Read our Butterfly Gardens flyer to see the garden layout.
Different species of butterflies have different preferences for nectar, in both colors and tastes and for host plants. A wide variety of food plants will give the greatest diversity of visitors. Try staggering wild and cultivated plants, as well as blooming times of the day and year. Groups of the same plants will be easier for butterflies to see than singly planted flowers.
We are in the process of adding more milkweed to this garden as well as around the entire area to become a certified Monarch Waystation. For more information: Monarch Watch
For more on butterfly gardens visit How to Make Butterfly Gardens.
Our Butterfly Garden includes: | Our Perennial Bed includes: |
Catmint Nepeta catoria Lamb’s Ear Stachys byzantina Joe-Pye Weed Eupatorium spp. Lemon Balm Melissa officinalis Globe Thistle Echinops New York Ironweed Vernonia Tall Meadow Rue Thalictrum spp. Purple Coneflower Echinacea Anise Hyssop Agastache Goldenrod Solidago Bronze Fennel Foeniculum vulgave Johnny Jump-ups Viola cornuta Dwarf Aster Asteraceae Russian Sage Perovskia Garden Phlox Phlox paniculata Yellow Coneflower Rudbeckia fulgida Stonecrop Sedum Sedum Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia Bee Balm Monarda |
Lilyturf Liriope muscari Yarrow Achillea Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum Chinese Peony Paeonia lactiflora Tickseed Coreopsis Siberian Iris Iris sibirica Butterfly Bush Buddleia davidii Iris Iris Lamb’s Ear Stachys byzantina Aster Asteraceae
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