A unique kind of gardening is gardening for wildlife. You can apply these techniques to your garden and aim to attract and sustain desirable wildlife. Butterflies and moths make a garden really come alive and help nourish our delight in the natural world. You can try to attract some of the world’s loveliest creatures by the use of native plants in your landscape.
Attracting butterflies to your garden can be easy if you keep the following points in mind:
Take a more relaxed approach to turf care and to maintaining the less formal areas of your garden beds: practice tolerance and let some ‘weeds’ like violets decorate the lawn and garden beds. Many weeds are larval food plants and nectar plants.
Leave dead foliage of many perennials up until early spring to allow for winter cover, and do not be too tidy in your spring cleanup. Some butterflies make it through the winter as larvae or pupae in leaf litter at the base of host plants: only rake leaves up where you absolutely need to, such as an exceptionally thick layer where many leaves blow and accumulate, and leave most of the leaves on your garden beds. Only a few natives that grow in the shade are sensitive to rot when covered up by a light layer of leaf debris, such as cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis).
As you can see, butterfly gardening is not much work and the result can be amazing.
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