Cheap & Easy Butterfly Gardening

I’m always trying to attract butterflies to my garden.  I keep a water source and have plenty of butterfly-attracting plants – Pentas, Hibiscus, and then some.  I don’t have a tally, but I’ve spent some bucks on the butterflies.  No more – I found a Ferry-Morse Butterfly & Hummingbird Wildflower Mix – the best $10 ever spent at Home Depot!  I filled in one of my 6′ x 6′ squares plus this dead corner space that was looking really drab, and I still have seeds left.  The flowers are okay, but the results are outstanding!  I see a butterfly at least once a day, and they stick around!  In the past, they were transients passing by just to taunt me, and for some reason they all seemed to be Swallowtails.  Now there’s a variety; I think this one is a Gulf Fritillary.    

  1. greetings! i have a butterfly garden i tend to at the ROSARY HILL HOME for terminally ill cancer patients.only seen a few butterflies.will try the wildflower mix! the photos you posted were great.

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