Add the best plants for butterflies to your garden and you'll soon get to enjoy the sight of these insects fluttering from flower to flower. You can attract as many as possible by growing the plants ...

A butterfly garden is truly a special, magical space, and it's not difficult to grow one in your own yard. You just need the right collection of plants.

Turn your backyard garden into a beautiful butterfly paradise. Grow swallowtail butterfly host plants and flowers.

A busy garden full of activity—earthworms in the soil, flying critters visiting the flowers that attract bees—is a healthy garden. Just like with bees, if you want to attract butterflies, there are ...

Butterflies are not just pretty and enchanting, they also offer important environmental benefits, such as plant pollination and pest control. They also serve as tasty meals for other creatures such as ...

Butterflies are everyone's favorite pollinators. Attracting them to the garden is easy: Grow flowers, and they will come. To a butterfly, your garden is not just a pretty place; it's a habitat, and ...

Butterflies fluttering about make your outdoor living space feel extra charming. Not only is it a delight to marvel at their colorful, patterned wings as they land in your garden, but, just like bees ...

There are about 750 butterfly species in the United States, according to the Smithsonian Institution, with the cabbage white perhaps the most common. Butterfly sightings in gardens are becoming more ...

To attract butterflies to your landscape, you need nectar plants. Among the best nectar plants are mistflower, zinnias, tropical milkweed, blue curl, lantana, salvia, fall aster, mint marigold and ...

We’re past the middle of September and most of the flowers of summer have faded. That means there are fewer flowers for butterflies, honeybees, wild bees and other pollinators. Gardeners can help the ...

Q: I have heard that planting a butterfly bush is the best to attract butterflies. Is this true or are there better choices for attracting butterflies and other pollinators to my yard? It is true that ...