Perennial Butterfly Garden Design
This takes some patience though because some of the perennials take quite a while before they are flowering plants.
Perennial butterfly garden design. Free butterfly garden designs flower garden plans butterfly. Other butterfly bushes lantanas yarrows agastache asters salvias tall verbena and other butterfly attracting plants. Perennials come back year after year and all of the ones listed below flourish in sunny locations.
If it growns native in your area allow it to naturalize. Apr 13 2019 explore cindy swafford s board butterfly garden design on pinterest. Incorporating plants in your garden for the monarch butterfly s larvae is essential for their survival.
Monarch larvae eat only milkweed plants. Butterfly bush dwarf 2 purple coneflower 2 tall brazilian verbena verbena bonariensis 2 autumn joy or autumn fire sedum 6 bronze fennel 2 aster x frikartii mönch 2 broccoli 6 oregano 2 anise hyssop 3 lantana 2. Other design categories.
Butterflies flock to pink and purple shades like amethyst montgomery or the elegantly draping ostrich plume. It is best to have a combination of annuals and perennials in your butterfly garden design. Asclepias tuberosa is a beautiful native perennial well suited to any garden.
Made in the shade or sun green scene garden designs use hostas. The stained glass patterns of butterfly wings will add an extra dimension to this colorful garden bed which bursts with easy to grow perennial and annual flowers that are irresistible to these pretty creatures. Orange blue and green colours make up this triadic colour scheme.
Excellent specimen in the perennial garden or around patios and decks. 18 feet by 10 feet planting key. Asclepias or butterfly weed is the host plant for monarch butterflies.