Backyard Gardens: Inviting Butterflies Into Your Backyard

Setting up a backyard garden is the surest way to invite butterflies to your home.   Here we will go over starting a backyard garden and which plants attract butterflies.

Designing Backyard Gardens

There are many things that you need to consider when designing your backyard garden. First, you need to take into consideration the present condition of your backyard. If you backyard already have existing plants, you need to take an inventory of the plants and decide which ones you are going to keep and which ones have to go.

Do not over crowd your backyard with plants if you don’t want your backyard to look cluttered. Besides putting too many plants in your backyard will invite mosquitoes and other insects into your home. To make sure that you have just enough plants to make your backyard look good, take a sketch pad and drawn the lay-out of your backyard garden. Leave enough breathing space in your design to avoid crowding.

The second thing that you need to consider when designing your backyard garden is your budget. You need to ask yourself how you can afford to spend on your backyard garden. To know how much money you can spare for your garden, check your monthly income and savings against your usual monthly expenses. Make sure that you do not drain your finances just to make your backyard garden look beautiful. Yes, a beautiful backyard garden is important but you don’t really have to go broke just to create a lovely picture at the back of your home.

The third thing that you need to consider when designing your backyard garden is the type of plant that you need. If you want to invite butterflies into your garden, you need to use plants that are attractive to butterflies. Some plants that are attractive to butterflies are milkweed, aspen, chokecherry, dill, parsley, marigold, aster, lilac, cottonwood, pansy, clover and others.  To attract a variety of butterflies into your backyard, try planning different types of plants. Add native plants into your list of planting materials. Native plants are good at attracting species of butterflies that are endemic in your area.

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