A butterfly garden is more than a collection of attractive plants. It's a learning experience. In return, these six-legged beauties will do your plants a favor.
Butterflies are good pollinators.
The garden will also attract hummingbirds. A butterfly garden can be designed to fit any size space, and butterflies like such a wide variety of plants that you can design a garden to have flowers in bloom all season, she says. Perennials are the mainstay, but annuals are added to the mix. The flowers which butterflies favor are full-sun varieties, so at least six hours of sunlight are needed. Some examples are butterfly weed, purple coneflower, Joe-Pye weed, sedums, hollyhocks, lilies.