Texas Butterfly Garden Design
Herbs of all kinds can be huge larvae caterpillar and butterfly attractor.
Texas butterfly garden design. Butterflies native to our region have long coexisted with the native vegetation of the central texas landscape. Giant swallowtail citrus rue hop ash ptelea trifoliate pipevine swallowtail dutchman s pipe aristolochia fimbriata and wooly pipevine aristolochia tomentosa. Eastern black swallowtail rue dill parsley fennel.
10 feet by 10 feet planting key. Annual butterfly garden plan annual butterfly garden design plan. Butterfly weed feeds monarchs in particular.
10 dont s of butterfly gardening brenda beust smith post. Reaches to 4 tall x 3 wide. The twu bettye myers butterfly garden has received the may business yard of the month award from keep denton beautiful.
Focus on planting native vegetation in your butterfly garden. The fact sheet and poster set available through the texas agrilife extension service below is a beginners guide to selecting host plants for our most common butterfly gardening species including the black swallowtail on parsley dill or fennel the gulf frittilary on passion vine and monarch butterfly on milkweeds. It is semi evergreen filled with beautiful yellow flowers.
In order for your garden to attract butterflies from spring to fall be sure to include spring summer and fall blooming plant species. Easiest butterflies to attract to our north texas gardens their host plants. Growing a butterfly garden is easy by selecting plants for all seasons.
Annual ageratum 12 to 14 purple annual verbena 2 red annual verbena 2 to 4 purple sweet alyssum about 12 white sweet alyssum about 20 parsley 4 bronze fennel 2 low growing or carpet zinnias 2 to 4 seed packets. Some of the butterfly attractors they planted were verbena bonariensis or purpletop or brazilian verbena bronze fennel red salvia yarrow moonshine coreposis verbena creeping rue purple coneflower and butterfly weed. Designated as a monarch waystation the butterfly garden boasts a lovely variety of flowers including coneflowers bachelor buttons poppies evening primrose larkspur phlox gerbera daisy and cornflowers.