Why Butterfly Gardening?

Butterfly planting has become much popular in recent years. It is simply an art of growing plants and flowers in a way that the butterflies will be easily attracted for your garden. The beauty of the butterflies can attract your family, visitors, friends and neighbors as well. It is very important to ensure proper shelter for them. While planning for butterfly gardening think about your pet cat or puppies. They are not friendly to butterflies. Nobody would like the see the butterflies dead.

What would be the design of your butterfly garden is fully depend on you. But you need to keep few things in mind while planning for butterfly gardening such as the area of the garden, the types of flowers and plants etc. The best advice I believe is that you need to choose such a style or pattern that is attractive not only for yourself but also for the butterflies.

It is important to find out which plants and flowers will attract the species of butterflies. that live in your area. This information can be found at the local library. To create the kind of environment that they find attractive, you will also need water of some kind. A birdbath will look attractive and keep the butterflies up off the ground, away from stray cats or mischievous puppies. A shallow dish on a post or hung in a tree will do just as well.

When planting your butterfly garden be careful how you coordinate the colors you choose for your flowerbeds. Although butterflies do not care about your choice of color, you don’t want your garden to be a hodgepodge of unrelated colors and textures. Butterflies are attracted to those flowers that have nectar rather than pollen, like honeysuckle, milkweed, summer lilac, Valerian, daisies, Purple Coneflower, Yellow Sage, day lilies and lavender.

There are few important issues regarding the color of your garden as it helps a lot to bring an attractive look to your garden. Warm colors are naturally showy and flashy. These colors like orange and red have many influences against green background. Again, cool colors such as purple and blue are much soothing and toned down. If you want to develop a white contrast to create a fresh and bright appearance for your garden you can definitely choose cool colors.