Butterflies bring into any garden life, movement, and color, though they do not fly into any plant. An assortment of the proper flowers and host plants will create a favorable area where the butterflies can have a meal, rest and even hatch their young ones. The nectar flowers keep the caterpillars alive as the nectars and the host plants are leafy. All the mix of shapes, heights and blooming seasons will ensure that your garden keeps on going throughout the months. A small yard or balcony can be turned into the home of the butterfly with the right choice of the plants. There are ten good butterfly attracting plants which are natural and contribute to their life cycle.
Milkweed
Monarch butterflies are milkweed based. It serves as a nectar source and is also a host plant to which the monarchs lay eggs. The leaves are fed on by the caterpillars and the adult butterflies are influenced by the flowers.
Lantana
Lantana has large numbers of small coloured flowers, loaded with nectar. Long flowering and bright orange, pink, yellow, red, attract butterflies. It is not sensitive to heat and dry climate, and, therefore, it requires minimum maintenance.
Butterfly Bush
This bush is growing very fast and it has got long flower spikes, which are nectar filled. the butter-flies swarm around its sweet purple, pink or white blossoms. It flowers all through the months and it is a good background plant.
Coneflower
The coneflowers have wide petals that resemble daisies that provide butterflies a stable surface on which to land. It prefers to feed on the central cone where there is nectar. They are hard perennials that bloom throughout the summer season and can survive in soils that are not similar.
Zinnias
Zinnias are not that challenging to plant as they are flowering in a variety of pastel colors. Butterflies have no trouble feeding on the smooth tops of their flowers. They also grow very fast and flower all through the summer blooming all through nectar.
Verbena
Verbena bears a bunch of small flowers that are loved by butterflies. It spreads so widely and blossoms for very long periods in the gardens. It is an upright and trailing type that is used as a source of nectar.
Black-Eyed Susan
It is a bright yellow flower, dark-centered and bright-petaled. Its nectarous flowers also are dear to the butterflies, and the birds eat the seeds subsequently. It is hard, drought resistant and blooms over a long duration.
Parsley, Dill, and Fennel
These herbs are the food of the swallowtail butterflies. The caterpillars consume the leaves on which the adult butterflies deposit their eggs. They may be in form of mere herbs but they are significant to the life cycles of the butterflies.
Asters
The aster is also a late-season plant, and children who have already died provide nectar there. Their blossomed daisies trap passing butterflies in search of energy. The autumn gardens include the purple and pink forms.
Pentas
Pentas are plants that develop flower masses in the form of stars full of nectar. This is because the butterflies are known to visit these bright red, pink and white flowers. They thrive well in warm temperatures and they are in blossom at all times.
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