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What Does It Take To Have A Great Georgia Butterfly Garden This Summer?

A Summer Filled With Butterflies In GA

A Summer Filled With Butterflies In GA

It all begins with the desire. By doing a little planning in the design, location and selection of the right plants to attract first the caterpillars, and then the butterfly, you will receive your reward in the spectacular show of color in the air, as well as the garden.

The Top 12 perennials And Annuals For Attracting Butterflies

Perennials

  1. Butterfly Bush
    Butterfly Weed
    Coreopsis
    Hollyhock
    Lantana
    Loosetrife
    New England Aster
    Phlow
    Purple Cornflower
    Verbena
    Violet
    Yarrow

Butterfly Loving Lantana

Butterfly Loving Lantana

Annuals

  1. Cosmos
    Heliotrope
    Impatiens
    Marigolds
    Mexican Sunflower
    Nasturtium
    Phlox
    Pin-Cushion
    Shasta daisy
    Sweet William
    Verbena
    Zinnia

While there may be a lot of different butterfly nectar plants available, there are few of these nectar-bearing plants that are at the top of the list.

The top seven nectar bearing food plants that butterflies love are butterfly weed, purple coneflowers, the New England Aster, Milkweed, Marigolds, Oregano and Butterfly Bush. If you plant all 7 of these plants, you will definitely be seeing a lot more butterflies in your yard!

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Butterfly Host Plants
Plants That Caterpillars Love

Herbs Butterflies Are Attracted To

  1. Anise
    Borage
    Burdock
    Caraway
    Clover
    Dill
    Dock
    Fennel
    Ginger (wild)
    Hop Vine
    Hyssop (water)
    Lavender
    Marjoram
    Mallow
    Mints
    Mustards
    Nasturtium
    Nettle
    Parsley
    Plantain
    Rue
    Sassafras
    Vervain
    Violet
    Yarrow

Butterfly Nectar Plants
Plants that produce abundant nectar to attract butterflies

What Butterfies Are Most Abundant To The Area Of GA
List Of Butterflies Of Georgia

A Bit About The Monarch Butterfly-King of The Butterflies

 

Wildflower Center For Native Plant Info.

Wildflower Center For Native Plant Info.

If you would like to consider Native Plants to the area, check out this website:

Native Plants Database Site

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