This is important so you will know which plants to choose that will thrive in your soil. Keeping your garden as natural as possible will also attract more butterflies and a wider variety of species. After your site has been prepared, you are finally ready to select your plants. Selecting the right plants is a major key to successful butterfly gardening. First, choose nectar plants that are sun-loving.
Butterflies prefer pink, purple, or white flowers and single flowers rather than double flowers.
Arrange plants with the shorter plants in the front and taller plants in the back of your flower bed. Larval food plants should be placed in less obvious areas, perhaps even hidden. For optimal butterfly attraction, plant in groups of one color rather than single plants of differing colors. Butterflies will often cover an entire group of plants of the same color while feeding, offering you a spectacular show of their own living colors. Consider planting so that you will have continuous blooms throughout spring, summer and fall.