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Butterfly Garden
Aug
PERENNIALS & SHRUBS
THAT ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES
Your butterfly garden should be planted in the sunniest location in your garden. Butterflies need the warmth of the sun to raise their body temperatures. Be sure to include purple, pink, yellow, and white flowers in the garden as these colors attract butterflies. Supply food (host) plants for the caterpillars to munch, as well as nectar plants for the butterflies. A small saucer of water is beneficial also for butterfly puddling.
Absolutely NO PESTICIDES should be used in a butterfly garden.
| Perennials (H)=Host Plant
Achillea -Yarrow Alcea(H) -Hollyhock Aquilegia(H) -Columbine Asclepias(H) -Butterfly Weed Aster(H) Baptisia(H) – False Indigo Chelone(H) – Turtlehead Echinacea -Cone Flower Echinops -Globe Thistle Eupatorium(H) -Joe Pye Weed Gaillardia -Blanket Flower Heliopsis(H) -Sunflower Iberis -Candy Tuft Lavender Leucanthemum -Shasta Daisy Liatris -Gay Feather Lilies Lupine(H) Monarda -Bee Balm Nepeta -Catmint Peony Tall Phlox
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Trees and Shrubs (H)=Host Plant
Alder Tree(H) All Fruit Trees(H) All Fruiting Shrubs(H) Azalea Birch Tree Butterfly Bush Clethra Dogwood(H) Lilac(H) Maple Tree Mockorange Oak Tree Potentilla Pussywillow Redbud Tree Serviceberry(H) Spirea Viburnum(H) Weigela Willow(H)
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