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Monday, September 19

 

How to Attract Butterflies to your Home Garden?
Garden full of colorful flowers and beautiful butterflies can be a reality for anyone. Vibrant butterflies sitting on the flowers for nectar look almost magical. It can transform the entire garden’s look.
Butterflies are not just a treat to the eyes but they also serve other purposes. Butterflies help in the pollination of flowers. They also play an important role in the food chain and many birds feed on the butterfly larvae and cocoon. With a little knowledge on the subject, you can attract many butterflies in your home garden. If you provide favorable conditions then the butterflies can reproduce and increase in number eventually.
You can create a butterfly friendly atmosphere in the garden by planting flowers and plants that the butterflies love. During the early stage, butterflies are actually in the form of caterpillars and they feed of plant leaves. So, you will have to tolerate a little damage of the foliage but once the butterflies grow they feed on nectar of flowers which is helpful for pollination.
To attract more and more butterflies to your home garden, you will have to choose a sunny location to plant flowers and shrubs that the butterflies love. It is advisable to plant different varieties that produce nectar for the butterflies. Once you have prepared the landscape with appropriate flowering plants, you can expect to attract different species of butterflies to your garden.
 Some of the nectar producing plants that butterflies love are- Lilac, Butterfly Bush, Zinnea, Petunia, Sunflower, Daisy, Lavender, Sweet rocket and Ivy. You can plant many different of flowering plants to provide a favorable patch for the butterflies. It is a good idea to grow the flowering plants that bloom in sequence so that the butterflies get ample amount of nectar to feed on.
These are some of the tips which can help you to invite native butterflies to your home garden.

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