What is butterfly gardening?
Well, butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures called butterflies to your garden. This provides lots of delights and joys to your family and visitors but do make sure that you have to create a safe habitat for them.
If you own cats, you may want to rethink your plans because it would be a shame to attract these lovely insects to their death.
How the design of your butterfly garden will be depended on your own personal preference.
Points to consider :-
1) how big do you want your garden be
2) what types of flowers and plants to grow to attract the butterflies that you wish
3) research on different kinds of landscaping designs to get ideas.
It is paramount important to find out which kinds of plants and flowers will attract the species of butterflies that live in your area. You can easily access this information at your local library or you can ask the local nursery for advices.
A birdbath will create an attractive environment and at the same time, it helps to keep the butterflies off the ground, away from cats or mischievous puppies. A shallow dish on a post or hung in a tree will do just as well.
Take special care choosing the colors of your plants and flower for your butterfly garden. You don't want your effort of creating a beautiful garden becomes a hodgepodge of discoordinated colors flowers. Butterflies are attracted to those flowers that have nectar rather than pollen, like honeysuckle, milkweed, summer lilac, Valerian, daisies, Purple Coneflower, Yellow Sage, day lilies and lavender.
A number of people find it useful to draw and color a layout of their butterfly gardening plan to help them to have better and clearer picture how the finished product looked like. Bear in mind that warm colors like red and orange are flashy and showy. Somehow these radiant colors have a greater impact against a strong green background. Cool colors such as blue and purple are soothing and toned down and would work better with a white contrast to create the look of freshness and brightness.
