How to Attract Butterflies to Your Garden
Having a beautiful garden full of butterflies is something we think belongs to the movies and can not happen in real life. This pessimistic view of the possibilities of our gardens is totally wrong. If you wish, we can have a yard where there are many colors, aromas and butterflies to give a touch of dream.
To attract these beautiful insects to our gardens, we should only follow a few steps. Here in we bring the information necessary for the illusion of a garden with butterflies from becoming reality.
The basics of designing a garden filled with butterflies and flowers is to incorporate plants that offer nectar and shrubs to provide a secure home. Have gardens that meet these requirements will enable us to ensure a frequent visitor of these beautiful insects that also added warmth to the atmosphere of our patio.
How to attract butterflies?
The first thing to do is select an area of the garden to build a habitat for butterflies. This place must necessarily be sunny as the light of day favors the appearance of these insects and also accelerates the production of nectar from flowers.
The second is to choose plants with high nectar production to provide food for insects. Butterflies drink nectar from flowers in our garden if we have a wide variety of plants, wildflowers and shrubs will be very attracted.
Species of plants that attract these beautiful more insects are echinacea, sage, milkweed, stem iron, known as Queen Anne, lilies and petunias. These feed the butterflies with their nectar and if we add to your diet, can help mature and rotten fruit by placing in a container half buried in the garden as it attracts them a lot.
In addition to a home for the larvae, we also have to put shrubs officiate as a refuge for adult butterflies. A lilac bush is a good option since it can work both as a source of nectar and shelter.
Following these tips and our flowers and shrubs adapted to the needs of butterflies will take very little to see how the air is populated by them and the environment of our garden is in a dream similar to that seen in the movies.