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Anyone with a successful butterfly garden?

I would love to hear about a nice looking butterfly garden with host and nectar plants.Mine did attract butterflies,but it looks ugly.(catepilars probably...)

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1. yea, if you plant a butterfly garden then you need to accept the bad with the good. I find it easier to just plant a lot of what they want because they can't eat all, but I know that there will be some plants they will strip clean. I like to attract the swallow tails and they love dill and parsley so I make sure I plant a lot. Anyhow, just keep trying and you'll figure it out. It is also okay to plant other flower like nectar flowers and bright colored flowers. these will help hide the food plants. Good luck
2. I have lots of echinacea in bloom right now and the monarchs are loving it! I also have buddleia (white) that many different varieties of butterflies seem to love! My garden has lots of perennial Asiatic lillies, mallow, foxglove, roses, daisies, bee balm (Bergamot), violets, tulips, columbine, ferns, coreopsis, daylilies, gladioli, petunias, pansies, herbs of all kinds, impatiens. The bees, wasps and butterflies all seem delighted as do the humans. No chemicals are used on any of the vegetables, flowers or herbs.
3. we have all sorts of butterflies butterfly bushes(10) Dahlia (8) dianthus(12) morning glory speedwell(8) moon flower bee balm(10) fox glove cone flower (6) daisies beards tongue (4) cardinal flowers (2) geum (4) delphinium (13) roses (47) more bulbs ,perennials and more annuals than i can count have fun it takes some work but its worth it the numbers in ( ) are different varieties I think me and the wife are a bit O C D lmao