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Welcome Butterflies to Your Garden

Remember butterflies when planning your garden this spring.  Choose the flowers and plants they like and these colorful visitors will flock to your yard.

In choosing plants to attract butterflies, remember they like sun and the plants they prefer will do best with at least six hours of sunlight daily.  The ideal planting area is a semi protected location next to a fence, building, or hedge.

Set out perennial flowers and shrubs into the garden as soon as the ground can be work, then fill in with annual flowers after the danger of frost is passed.

Some perennial plants the butterflies like are: Cardinal Flower, Columbine, Coral Bells, Butterfly Weed, Coreopsis, Cranesbill Geranium, Daylilies, garden Phlox, Liatris, Monarda, Penstemon, Rudbeckia, Echinacea, Lady's Mantle and Sedum.

The shrubs butterflies enjoy are:  Buddleia, Honeysuckle, Trumpet Vine, and Mock Orange.

Many annuals will also attract our fiends:   Asters, Salvia, Cornflower, Strawflower, Zinnias, Dill, Parsley, and Nasturtiums, Snapdragons, and impatiens.

This is a good time to start planting, so by June our butterfly friends will know where their yard is.  Remember they get thirsty too.   Fill a shallow pan and sink it into the garden soil with a few stones in it so they may rest on the stones.  Or hang a commercial butterfly feeder low for them to drink.