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Butterfly plants are an absolute must for the conscientious gardener. If you want to see more pollinators and increase your gardening yields this year, you absolutely need one (or more) of these plants in the yard.
Attract These Winged Beauties With Color
Butterflies do not just add more color and vibrant life to your garden or landscaping. They also provide natural pest control and help with pollination between flowers. Adding flowers to help attract many species of butterflies to your garden can help bring more vibrant life to your yard, as well as help maintain the overall health of your other flowers.
They Flock To Bright Blooms and Nectar
Although many butterflies are attracted to brighter blooms and showy flowers, other more muted types of flowers, like grasses and some shrubs, can also be just as attractive to certain species of butterflies, depending on where you live.
Butterflies can help drastically reduce the impact of insect pests around your garden. The harvester butterflies, for example, eat wool aphids as a primary source of food. Depending on where you live, other types of butterflies may appear in your yard to help with the specific pests you might be dealing with.
They Help The Environment
Along with the natural pest control butterflies, they also help pollinate your flowers as they fly around and land on each flower or bloom. This is essential to maintaining the overall health of your garden.
These Plants Save Wildlife
As beautiful as the butterflies that are attracted to these flowers might be, they can also attract other pollinators, such as bees and moths, to your garden. The more diversity of pollinators you can attract to your garden, the higher the chances of better matches with the specific flowers you might have.
This is especially helpful for maintaining healthy soil around your garden and increasing the yield of any fruiting trees or vines you might have. By helping create healthier and better soil for your flowers, they are able to grow more resilient and become more and more resistant to diseases and other troubles that might be common to your area. The flowers provide all of these great benefits without the need for fertilizers or pesticides.