Butterfly Garden Bed
Butterfly Garden Bed
The Butterfly Garden is designed to attract, support, and provide habitat for butterflies throughout their life cycle. By incorporating nectar-rich flowers and host plants, these gardens offer essential resources for adult butterflies and caterpillars, promoting pollinator diversity and contributing to local ecosystem health.
Favorite Plants in this bed:
Purple Coneflower - Echinacea purpurea
The purple coneflower comes in a variety of colors. Butterflies are not apt hovercrafts and need an easy place to land without much delay. Flowers originating from a single apex or with large petals enable quick and easy landing and immediate access to nectar.
Gregg's Mist Flower - Eupatorium greggii
Many butterflies, including painted ladies, skippers, fritillaries, and monarchs, feed on blue mistflower’s nectar. Male Queen butterflies flock to Gregg’s Mist as they need the plant to produce pheromones to attract females.
See Texas A&M AgriLife’s guide for easy steps to create a pollinator friendly garden.
For more information on Monarchs and how to support them throught their lifecycle, see the Native Plant Society of Texas.
Conflower in Purple, White and Red in the Butterfly Garden Bed
Gregg’s Mistflower with Queen butterfly
Yarrow (Achillea Layla) with a tagged Monarch butterfly