As you are planning out your gardens take time to plan out a spot in your garden for butterflies. Butterflies can be found in almost any part of the Heartlands. Watching and trying to attract butterflies to a garden has become a very popular and enjoyable pasttime. Inviting butterflies into your garden and yard is very easy if you follow a few simple steps to meet the basic needs of a butterfly. We will start our discussion with water, which is one of the basic needs of butterflies.
Butterflies are always on the lookout for a nice watering hole.
They like to drink in groups out of shallow saucers or puddles. If you are going to use a birdbath or a saucer for your water hole put a few flat stones inside where the butterflies can rest and sun themselves while drinking. The best watering holes are puddles you make yourself in the ground. Dig a shallow hole in the ground. Mix some sand, soil and pebbles together.