Flowering Plants to be Grown for Your Butterfly Garden

Spending time in your garden gives you much relaxation. The beauty of the natural flowering plants along with colorful butterflies at places makes you enjoyable. You can, therefore, further add color and beauty to your garden by growing plants that attract or are necessary for butterflies.

Plants with a variety of colors and heights have to be added to your garden. Azaleas, rhododendrons and lilacs of various heights are the preferable flowering plants to be grown for attracting butterflies. You can also add weigela that has flowers like dainty trumpets.

A butterfly garden is not complete without butterfly milkweed. It not only attracts the butterflies with its orange flowers, but also provides food for caterpillars. As butterflies come from caterpillars, it is also required to grow some plants which they like to feed. You can grow dill and parsley which provide food for the caterpillars. Plants on which the beautiful insects prefer to lay eggs should also be added for a butterfly garden. Milkweed is the best flowering plant which supports the entire life cycle from caterpillars to chrysalis to butterfly.

Yarrow, which is a great butterfly perennial, has creamy gold flowers from midsummer through frost. Gayfeather with its unique flower spikes provide a strong vertical accent in the butterfly garden. The sunny orange blooms of Mexican sunflower attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Lilac, butterfly bush, purple coneflower, hibiscus, hoolyhocks and cosmos are some other flowering plants which can be grown in your garden to attract butterflies. When planning to have a butterfly garden, arrange these plants in your garden and place a comfortable bench in the garden to sit and admire the beautiful butterflies.