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| These plants are especially attractive to bees: basil, bay, beebalm, borage, catnip, chamomile, fennel, germander, horehound, hyssop, lavender, lemon balm, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, sage, savory, and thyme. |
Butterfly Garden There are several things you can do to attract butterflies to your garden: provide lots of nectar-bearing flowers, food for caterpillars, sun, shelter and water. Provide flowers from early spring until late autumn. Not all flowers attract butterflies. Each species lays its eggs on or near a certain kind of plant. Its caterpillars are adapted to eat only (with a few exceptions) this particular plant. Be prepared! You can’t have butterflies without caterpillars- and caterpillars eat plants! Many butterflies, such as swallowtails, are attracted to small mud puddles to get their needed salts for their diets. Chemicals, especially pesticides, will kill not only the target insects, but also others, including butterflies and caterpillars. So avoid chemichals whenever possible! |
Butterfly-Specific Nectar Plants ...Achillea Spring/Summer Agastache foeniculum Summer/Fall Ammobium Summer/Fall Agastache foeniculum Spring Asclepias Summer Aster Summer/Fall Buddleja Summer/Fall Centaurea Early Summer Centranthus Summer Coreopsis Early Summer Cynara Summer Dianthus Summer Echinacea Summer Eupatorium Late Summer Gomphrena Summer/Fall Helenium Fall Helianthus Fall Inula Early Summer Lavandula Early Summer Liatris Summer Limonium sinuatum Summer/Fall Monarda Summer Origanum vulgare Summer Pycnanthemum Summer Rudbeckia Summer/Fall Salvia farinacea Summer/Fall Salvia farinacea Late Summer Tagetes Summer Tithonia Summer/fall Thymus Spring Verbena Summer |
Caterpillar Food Plants Anaphalis margaritacea American Painted Lady USA Artemisia dracunculus Swallowtail WUSA Artemisia ludoviciana American Painted Lady USA Asclepias Monarch USA Aster Crescents USA Cassia marilandica Yellows USA Chelone glabra Baltimore Checkerspot EUSA Foeniculum vulgare Anise Swallowtail WUSA Helianthus Gorgone Crescent WUSA/SEUSA Humulus lupulus Comma EUSA Malva West Coast Lady WC Passiflora incarnata Gulf Fritillary SEUSA Penstemon Checkerspots USA Plantago major Buckeye USA Populus White Admiral USA W Tiger Swallowtail WUSA Rumex acetosella Little Copper ...Ruta graveolens Black Swallowtail EUSA Salix Mourning Cloak USA Urtica dioica Tortoise Shell EUSA/WUSA Vaccinium Bog Copper EUSA Viburnum Spring Azure USA Viola odorata Fritillary USA |
A Dozen Must-Have Herbs for the Butterfly Garden Anise Must-Haves for the Butterfly Garden, the leaves and or flowers feed the Butterfly Caterpillars! Birch |
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