Gardening Supplies for a Flower & Butterfly Garden
A flowering butterfly garden is an attractive addition to any landscape. The flowers are fragrant and striking while the butterflies add a touch of wonder. It is quite easy to attract those multihued beauties to your butterfly garden with the right tools, materials and plants.
Materials for a Garden
- Garden Soil
- Shovels and Trowels
- A Watering System such a sprinkler, a hose or a watering can.
- An all-purpose fertilizer.
Plants That Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Bush: An airy bush with long, thin clusters of tiny flowers that come in many different colors. Zones 5-9.
- Butterfly Weed: Red, orange, pink or yellow tiny flowers grow in clusters about two feet tall. Zones 4-9
- Pentas: Star-shaped flowers cluster in pink, lilac, white and dark pink in this annual that grows up to four feet tall. Zones 5-11
- Asters: Commonly found in shades of purple, but also available in white and pinks, Asters have daisy-like flowers and can grow up to six feet tall. Zones 3-9.
- Joe Pye Weed: Many flowers cluster together to form orbs on this plant that grows four to six feet tall. Zones 3-10.
- Coreopsis: Butter-cup yellow flowers shaped like stars develop on airy stalks on this plant that grows up to three feet. Zones 3-9
- Phlox: An annual growing up to 18 inches, Phlox is available in red, pink, light purple and white. Zones 2-11.
- Bee Balm: Also called Monarda, Bee Balm is a uniquely shaped flower growing in purple, red, pink and white. It grows up to four feet tall. Zones 3-9.
- Mexican Sunflower: This annual can grow up to eight feet tall with multiple dark orange flowers. Zones 4-11.
- Zinnia: An annual available in many colors, the red and pink Zinnias are most likely to attract butterflies. Zones 2-11.
Other Butterfly Attractors
A birdbath or other container of still water.
Host plants for caterpillars.
- Butterfly houses.
Butterflies will not be able to resist visiting a flower garden filled with aromatic, colorful blooms. Enjoy the vibrant visitors in your butterfly garden year after year as your plants come back bigger and better.