Garden Design With Butterfly Bush
Try to choose a spot protected from wind.
Garden design with butterfly bush. The stained glass patterns of butterfly wings will add an extra dimension to this colorful garden bed which bursts with easy to grow perennial and annual flowers that are irresistible to these pretty creatures. Buddleia davidii butterfly bush potter s purple usda zones 5 9 4 6. Butterfly bush is an ideal plant to add color fragrance height and texture in the garden and landscape.
A variety of blossoms offers nectar to adult butterflies while leafy food sources such as parsley nourish the larvae. Get planting advice garden design tips and trends monthly checklists for your area product specials and more in our weekly newsletter. Adult butterflies like to sip salts moisture and minerals from moist sand or damp earth.
Feb 11 2020 explore gardening know how s board butterfly gardens followed by 233230 people on pinterest. Sometimes they seek out plants in a particular family and sometimes their caterpillars will dine on one plant and one plant only. However there are a few tricks you can apply to your garden design to make your garden border more tempting.
Butterflies are attracted to bright colors and butterflies and hummingbirds both like high nectar plants such as the ones featured in this garden design. If you intermingle attractive host plants with nectar rich plants in your flower garden you may find yourself fostering one butterfly. Many butterflies are very specific about which host plant they will lay their eggs on.
See more ideas about butterfly garden planting flowers plants. Discover how plants like salvia. Develop your butterfly garden design for a sunny location since both butterflies and most of the plants they feast on thrive in sun.
1 measure the area where you want to add butterfly bushes.