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How to Attract Butterflies to Your Garden

Author: Kathy Burns-Millyard

The flittering of the butterfly through your garden is no accident if you planned your garden carefully. The adult butterfly
 flitters from flower to flower - sipping nectar from many flowers in your gardens, while other adult butterflies search for
 areas to lay their larvae. It is good to take note that the butterfly garden is going to differ from other areas of your garden.
 Your natural instincts will be to kill off pests, larvae and creatures in the garden, but in the butterfly garden your best
 results are noticed when you use organic gardening: Which means no chemicals at all. In you want to include the use of
 butterflies in your landscape you will need to create a safety zone for your butterflies to feel safe. Butterflies frequent
 habitual zones, where they feel safe and where areas of the landscape meet with the tree lines. Creating your butterfly
 gardens near or around trees will help in attracting even more of these graceful creatures to your gardens. A tip in attracting
 the Black Swallowtail or the Anise Swallowtail is this: Plant parsley, dill or fennel in your gardens, these plants attract this
 certain butterfly. If these herbs are not your favorites, you can attract other types of butterflies using other flowers. To
 attract the Fritillary butterfly for instance, plant Lupine flowers your garden. Or you may want to consider planting Snapdragons
 to attract butterflies that are native in your own area. Your early butterfly gardens are going to attract butterflies only in
 passing, but creating and growing the gardens that offer a safe haven for the butterfly will urge them to stay in your garden.
 Butterflies are attracted to areas of your gardens where they can gather food for their offspring. The caterpillar will eat
 from the plants while the adult butterflies will sip on the nectar of the flowers. As your plants, shrubs, and flowers mature,
 the amount of butterflies to your gardens will also increase. The plants and flowers that you put in your garden this year
 will attract only a few, but in the years to come the natural instinct of the butterfly will lead them to your garden. What is
 the adult butterfly searching for in your gardens? The butterfly searches for areas to take shelter from the high winds, the
 rains, and the summer storms. This is where the trees and shrubs in your gardens become important in protecting the
 butterfly and offering shelter. During the normal, warm sunny summer day the butterfly wants the wide-open areas of your
 lawn and garden. Butterflies will seek soft soil that is sandy-like to find water. The sand-like soil that allows water to
 puddle up after a rainstorm is a butterflies delight. The developing stages of the caterpillar to the butterfly are observed
 often in the established butterfly garden. By creating the atmosphere in the garden that offers the shelter, food, water and
 the fragrance the butterfly is searching for you will have Butterfly Garden success.


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