Butterfly Garden Design Pdf

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Butterfly garden design pdf. Butterfly gardening kit 2nd edition location locate your garden in the sun. Butterflies like to feed in sunny areas. This small powerhouse of a garden provides food and shelter for wildlife as well as establishing beautiful na.

The same type and color of plant when clustered together seems to be more attractive to butterflies than a variety of colors and types of plants. 2 butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa zones 4 9. Bright orange flowers in late spring unusual seed pods.

1 decide on the basic shape of your bird butterfly garden. Create a lush island bed of flowers that will bring beautiful butterflies to your garden. Butterfly garden plan garden dimensions.

3 plant the native plants recommended in this design sheet. The butterfly has four distinct life stages. This publication describes the life cycle of butter flies how to design your garden to meet the specific needs of butterflies a list of some of the most common butterfly species in.

2 remove any grass or sod. 4 mulch the area to help keep weeds down and hold in moisture but keep mulch away from the base of each plant. A successful butterfly garden provides food water shelter and places to lay eggs.

Butterfly garden with summer to early fall blooms illustrated by katie walberg butterfly garden with spring to early summer blooms these illustrations provide a guide to blooming times and how the garden will look as it matures. The basic needs change as the body changes. A female butterfly lays her eggs on the leaves of a host plant that will provide food for the caterpillar stage.