Butterfly Garden Design Pdf

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Butterfly garden design pdf. A successful butterfly garden provides food water shelter and places to lay eggs. Create a lush island bed of flowers that will bring beautiful butterflies to your garden. Butterflies like to feed in sunny areas.

2 butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa zones 4 9. A female butterfly lays her eggs on the leaves of a host plant that will provide food for the caterpillar stage. 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.

Suitable habitat also includes shelter from wind and rain open sunny areas for basking and mud puddles for water and nutrients. Butterfly garden plan garden dimensions. 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.

24 10 plant list a. Egg caterpillar chrysalis and adult. 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.

4 mulch the area to help keep weeds down and hold in moisture but keep mulch away from the base of each plant. 1 decide on the basic shape of your bird butterfly garden. 3 plant the native plants recommended in this design sheet.

2 remove any grass or sod. You can plant directly into the existing grade or raise the bed by adding and mixing soil. The butterfly has four distinct life stages.