Common Buckeye Butterfly.

Summer-blooming Asclepias syriaca is an important larval host plant for the monarch butterfly and attracts a number of pollinating insects

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES 7 Native Wildflowers to Make You an Awesome Butterfly Host

Offer the leaves of these and you’ll get more butterflies than with flower nectar alone

GARDENING GUIDES 6 Steps to Creating Your Butterfly Garden

By Debbie Ballentine

Encourage these fanciful winged beauties to visit your garden while helping restore their fragmented habitat

GARDENING GUIDES 6 Plants That Beat Butterfly Bush for the Wildlife Draw

It's invasive, a nonnative and a poor insect magnet. Check out these better alternatives to butterfly bush in the garden

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Butterfly Milkweed, a Beacon in the Prairie

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Vivacious orange flowers for you, nectar for the butterflies and bees. Asclepias tuberosa is worth planting for more reasons than one

GARDENING GUIDES 20 Favorite Flowers for Butterflies and Bouquets

By Marianne Lipanovich

Discover perennials and annuals that do double duty as butterfly magnets and versatile cut flowers

GARDENING GUIDES Mourning Cloak Butterflies Herald Spring

These butterflies feed at tree-sap flows in spring and visit native plant flowers for nectar in early summer

GARDENING GUIDES American Lady Butterflies Add Delight to Summer Gardens

Provide native nectar and larval host plants to welcome these migratory butterflies

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES Be a Butterfly Savior — Garden for the Monarchs

Keep hope, beauty and kindness alive in the landscape by providing a refuge for these threatened enchanters

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES Butterfly Gardening: Delight the Eyes With Living Sculptures

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Surprise and thrill with a garden that attracts magical winged creatures, bringing color, movement and life