Planting For Butterflies

butterfly garden

Double the beauty in your garden when your flowers attract butterflies.

Little is such fun as watching butterflies swoop through the garden, adding their own color to the plantings.

I’m moving beyond the three kinds of milkweed I have planted for the Monarchs, and finding other butterfly friendly flowers.

First to expand my collection was a Chinese Lantern, a variety of abutilon.

butterfly friendly

In catalogs and on line, these plants are called Flowering Maple as well as Indian Mallow.

Or we could just say, beautiful.