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Essential Tips for Growing a Butterfly Garden

By stacy ling

Gardening Tips & Tricks

Want to attract more butterflies to your garden? Learn how to design and grow a butterfly garden with these essential tips.

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Creating a butterfly garden is a fun and rewarding way to attract butterflies to your yard and help support their populations. 

Choose a spot in your yard that receives at least 6-8 hours of sun for your butterfly garden, as butterflies love basking in the sun

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Choose plants that provide nectar for adult butterflies and host plants for their caterpillars.

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Butterflies need water, but they can’t drink from deep pools. Provide a  shallow dish of water filled with sand or stones so that butterflies can  land and drink safely.

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Butterflies need shelter to escape from predators and harsh weather  conditions. Shrubs, trees, and tall grasses provide shelter and roosting  spots for butterflies.

Avoid using pesticides in your butterfly garden and opt for natural pest control methods instead. 

Keep up with the gardens. Deadhead flowers to encourage more blooms, weed regularly, and prune shrubs and trees as needed. 

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Follow along to learn more about butterfly gardening.

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