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- 1. Starting a Butterfly Garden Express SUNROOMSSUNROOMS Expressof Knoxville, LLC
- 2. • Cultivated plants to draw in butterflies (and moths) • Incorporates plants for safe butterfly houses, nectar and host for lifestages • Can be a piece of a total yard habitat that incorporates plants to draw in winged creatures and other untamed life. What Is a Butterfly Garden?
- 3. Why Create a Butterfly Garden? • Excellence and pleasure • Awesome cultivating action for youngsters • Reducing naturally occurring living spaces for butterflies and moths • Most plants are low upkeep, dry spell tolerant, & lovely • Draws in pollinators
- 4. Butterfly Garden Design and Care • Full sun to part shade • Planting area • Incorporate screening plants or ones that keep wind from butterflies • Pick lasting plants that blossom spring through autumn to enjoy all season long; incorporate annuals • Amass plants together by shading; masses of a similar shading or tone has a tendency to draw in butterflies • Local plants bolster neighborhood butterfly species • Stay away from utilization of pesticides • Put garden close to the home, such as outside your screen room, so you can appreciate the butterflies!
- 5. Water Sources • "Mud Puddles" - Water sources are discretionary, yet likely valued by butterflies • Many butterflies get a kick out of the chance to drink from salty mud puddles. You can see them on moist rocks, pebbles or sand. Make a mud puddle by burrowing a shallow area and covering it in small rocks. • You can buy "butterfly puddle" bowls which are a shallow concrete bowl with stones – simply include water. • You can likewise utilize an old bird bath if the base breaks. A water basin is fine, yet the feathered creatures will utilize it more than the butterflies.
- 6. Plants for the Garden • Protect • Butterflies despise high winds and look for safe houses on breezy days. Plants for safe houses, for example, Buddleia (butterfly bush) gives both sustenance and asylum. • Nectar • Nectar delivering plants are commonly blossoming perennials and annuals • Local plants are particularly valuable • Host plants • Give sustenance to hatchlings
- 7. • Each butterfly species looks for a particular host plant • Incorporate an assortment to profit more butterflies • Regular host (hatchlings) plants include: • Dill, mint • Parsley (Eastern Black Swallowtail) • Violets (Great Spangled Fritillary) • Dogwood, virburnum (Spring Azure) • Milkweed (likewise a nectar plant) (Monarch) • Nettles (Comma, Red Admiral) Host Plants
- 8. • Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) Prolific seeder (deadhead in the event that you don't need seeds) Easy care, prune in fall, 10-15 feet tall White, lavender, purple, dull purple, bicolor • Nectar Plants: Purple and Blue Flowers • Nepeta (Cat Mint) and Salvia "May Night" Lavender Hidcote Centaurea cyanus (Cornflower, Bachelor's Buttons) Phlox subulata • Nectar Plants: Orange and Yellow • Coreopsis and marigolds, Lantana, Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan), Gaillardia Safehouses and Nectar
- 9. Daylilies Coreopsis major Joe Pye Weed Maximillian's Sunflowers Purple Coneflower Basic violet Yarrow Other Butterfly Garden Plants New England Aster Honey bee Balm Black-eyed Susan Cardinal Flower Butterfly weed Virginia Bluebell
- 10. A Simple Plan Butterfly Bush Butterfly Bush Annual border – sweet alyssum, marigolds, petunias Zinnia Zinnia Perennials - Salvia, daylilies, nepeta A Simple Plan
- 11. Now that your butterfly garden is set up, it’s time to relax in your sunroom and watch the beautiful insects flutter around. Don’t have a sunroom to enjoy the view? Call Sunrooms Express Knoxville and see how we can help you beat the summer heat, and bring more enjoyment to your backyard.