How do you create a butterfly garden? Butterfly gardening is a type of gardening that uses many different types of plants to attract butterflies. Delight your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but be sure to create a safe habitat for them. If you own cats rethink your plans, because it would be a shame to attract these lovely insects to their death.

The design your butterfly garden is a matter of personal preference. Typical points to consider are the size of your garden and the types of flowers and plants you want to grow. Pick a style of garden that appeals to you, but ensure it also contains the plants and flowers that appeal to the butterflies you wish to attract.

Make sure you do some research because it is important to find out what perennials will attract butterflies. that live in your area. This infomation can be found on google
There must be water to recreate the type of enviroment that butterflies love. A birdbath will look attractive and keep the butterflies up off the ground, away from stray cats or mischievous puppies. Feel free to use a small dish hung in a tree or perhaps even attached to a post, this will work fine.

As with any garden it is really important to choose the colors of the plants wisely for your butterfly garden. Although butterflies do not care about your choice of color, you don't want your garden to be a hodgepodge of unrelated colors and textures. Butterflies are attracted to those flowers that have nectar rather than pollen, like honeysuckle, milkweed, summer lilac, Valerian, daisies, Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium), Purple Coneflower, Yellow Sage, day lilies and lavender.

Some people find it helpful to draw and color a layout of their butterfly gardening plan to see what the finished product would look like. Keep in mind that warm colors like red and orange are flashy and showy. These colors have a greater impact against a strong green background. Cool colors such as blue and purple are soothing and toned down and would work better with a white contrast to create the look of freshness and brightness.

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