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What are the best plants to attract butterflies to your garden?

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  1. The 'Here butterfly butterfly' plant.
  2. Each species of butterfly has its own type of plant needed to attract them. Do some research and you will see that you have to plant specific types of plants.
  3. Buddleia aka "Butterfly tree".
  4. Buddlea Tree (not sure of spelling) I have one lilac one in my garden and it attracts all types of butterfly
  5. Nettles are generally good.
  6. Butterfly bush works great
  7. Buddlia http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/butterfly/msg0512434927848.html?5
  8. bright colored flowers
  9. it doesn't matter you will get more bees then butterflies anyway.
  10. there is actually a butterfly bush. It has thin, long stems and purplish flowers. The one in my yard is about five to seven feet around and six to seven feet tall.
  11. We have a couple of butterfly bushes in the garden and get lots of butterflys and humming birds. Type Butterfly bush in the search window for distributors.
  12. A butterfly bush! They are lovely with alot of blooms that can resemble lilacs - butterflies also seem to love Coreopsis, a perennial and flowers in the daisy family.
  13. Any flowering plants. I have wild poppies in my garden and the butterflies love them.
  14. Budliegha and you will have them swarming around like butterflies
  15. Rose.
  16. A family I know has a butterfly plant in their backyard. I have no idea what it is, but there always does seem to be a butterfly or two around it. This site might be helpful: http://butterflywebsite.com/butterflygardening.cfm
  17. Buddleia always attracts butterflies - they love it!
  18. I have stocks in my yard and it attracts alot of butterflies. They come in several colors and I have the purple ones. They produce seeds and I plant several seeds in a hole and get a larger plant. I live in the desert and they live year round. I have one in the sun and one gets partial shade. The partly shaded one does better.
  19. Buddlia (not sure that's the right spelling though!) – aka Butterfly Bush. They smell really nice - of honey - too, and have a long cluster of purple flowers at the end of the branches.
  20. Thats funny I was looking into that a short while ago. Flowers that attract butterflies Cowslip (Late Winter) Forget-me-not (May-September) Hollyhock (April/May or August/September) Poppy (March-April) Sweet William (April – July) The dates are when to sow them
  21. Buddleia
  22. my lantana attracts butterflies all the time. they sure are pretty ones as well
  23. Check out this link http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/aransas/butterfly.htm
  24. Try Catnip.....................my cat Brian loves it and he's always chasing butterflies!! Mi†hrandir™
  25. Butterfly bushes??
  26. Buddleia otherwise known as the Butterfly Bush
  27. Butterfly Bush (Buddleja Davidii) The flowers of the bush form a great attraction to butterflies, bringing you beautiful butterflies as well as beautiful flowers. Flowers August-September grows around 3 metres in height. Orpine Sedum Telephium Robust plant that likes a sunnt spot in the garden. As it succulent, it does not mind drought. Most sedum varieties, including this one attracts butterflies. Flowers july-September grows around 60 cm in height, pink colour. Ox-Eye Sunflower 'Asahi' (Heliopsis Helianthoides) Extremely robust border plant. The double flowers are quite exceptional, being approximately 5 cm in size and a magnificent dark yellow colour. Flowers July - September grows around 80cm in height. Buterfly friendly.
  28. Plants That Attract Butterflies Adults searching for nectar are attracted to: red, yellow, orange, pink, or purple blossoms flat-topped or clustered flowers short flower tubes Short flower tubes allow the butterflies to reach the nectar with their proboscis. Nectar-producing plants should be grown in open, sunny areas, as adults of most species rarely feed on plants in the shade. .
  29. cabbage
  30. Butter flys love Mimosa trees. They are also a beautiful addition to any yard but a bit large for a vegetable garden.
  31. Two plants are unrivalled for attracting butterflies,they are, Sedum Spectabile var;Autumn Joy.A perrenial,just coming into flower now and the common buddleia,which is a shrub.
  32. Blue flowers attract butterflies. Red flowers attract birds.
  33. It depends on whether you are talking of flowers they like, or plants their caterpillars feed on. Good flowers to attract them are nearly all compositae, like daisies, feverfew, achillea, but also wallflower, carnations, sweet williams. Their favourite shrub is Buddleia, and they seem to like roses, too. Fodder plants are nettles for peacocks and admirals, leaf beet for swallowtails and all brassicas for the white ones that come early in spring, but you might not like them if you are growing vegetables as well. there are many more that I don't know about , of course.
  34. Buddlea... or cabbages!!!!!
  35. Butterfly bush or buddleia BUT to get lots of butterflies you need to encourage butterflies to lay eggs and then have lots of green leaves for the caterpillars to eat. Nettles are surprisingly popular for caterpillars and give you an excuse not to do too much weeding!
  36. Stinging nettles. Honest.
  37. In my opinion, the cheapest,quickest to establish, easiest to maintain, most attractive, most fragrant, most butterflies per square foot has got to be the Buddlia Davidii. Common name Butterfly Bush........next question?
  38. Budleeah (sp??) and lilacs are pretty good.
  39. butterflybush
  40. wild ones, like in the fields
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