How to Make a Butterfly Container Garden | Making a Butterfly Garden

Butterflies visit a garden for two things—nectar, which they get from flowers, and for host plants to lay their eggs. So if you are Making a Butterfly Garden, ensure you grow both butterfly-friendly flowers that are nectar-rich and host plants—ones that caterpillars prefer to eat.

Usually, butterfly prefers to flutter in a sunny location that is less windy. Choose a location that receives at least 4-6 hours of sunlight daily and remains less windy.

Growing host plants when making a butterfly garden is essential. They attract butterflies to lay their eggs on them, once the eggs hatch and caterpillars emerge, they start to feed on the host plants.

You can grow black-eyed Susan, common milkweed, asters, coneflowers, hollyhock, nasturtiums, herbs like dill and fennel, and climbers like passionflower vine for this purpose.

Grow nectar plants in containers to attract butterflies. Wildflowers and weeds and flowers of non-hybrid varieties are suitable. Also, choose plants that have a long blooming season.

Mums, yarrow, Queen Anne’s lace, gaura, lantana, nemesia, zinnia, lavender, petunia, marigold, cosmos, verbena, butterfly weed, and pentas are some of the names.

If you’re making a butterfly garden, you must know the use of pesticides discourage the beneficial insects, birds, and pollinators and ultimately kill them as well.

Introduce beneficial insects like ladybugs, praying mantis, and lacewings and introduce organic solutions.

Use planter pots of different sizes. A combination of low-growing flowers, tall shrubs, and trailing plants is sufficient. You can also apply the thriller-spiller-filler technique.

Pollinators attract towards the areas where plants are planted densely and flowers appear in masses as they prefer to flutter from