Butterfly Gardening

Peacock Butterfly on Buddleia

British butterfly numbers are declining all the time and many species are now endangered. This is due in the main to the destruction of butterfly habitat and a shortage of food plants. For this reason alone, the conservation of butterflies has become crucial in the UK. How can we help? Simply by creating a garden containing some of the food plants and flowers that butterflies feed on. Furthermore, choosing the right nectar plants would allow you to enjoy a garden which is “butterfly-friendly” and will attract these beautiful creatures into your home. It does not matter how large or how small your garden is, if you plant the right type of plants, butterflies will visit your garden over and over again.

Butterfly Food Plants

The first thing that we can do to help our butterflies is to identify their food plants that grow wild in Britain, and avoid pulling them up. Some common butterfly food plants are:

NettlesRed CloverHolly BushesDandelionsThistle

 Dandelion 

Butterfly Garden Design

We at Butterfly Connections can design a butterfly garden for you. Your butterfly garden will include valuable nectar plants, such as:

BuddleiaMichaelmas DaisyAubrietiaScabious PlantsRed Valerian

Garden Hedge

When planning to put up a hedge in your garden, why not choose the Privet hedge? Many butterflies and moths will come to feed from the Privet flowers that appear in the summer, and small birds will often nest in an established privet hedge.

 Privet 

 

Please contact us for further information about how to create your own

“butterfly-friendly” garden!