Butterfly Garden Design: How to Choose Native Plants
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Published 2022-11-08
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Planning out a native plant butterfly garden can be an intimidating task. In this video I cover a simple four-step formula that helps with choosing plants for your garden. I give a bonus tip at the end so be sure to stick around for that!
How do you plan out your butterfly gardens? Please leave a comment and let us know!
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Chapters:
0:00 Simple Formula for Butterfly Garden Plant Selection
0:34 The Bloom Seasons in the Butterfly Garden
1:00 Native Plant Bloom Coverage in Each Season
1:27 Bloom Color and Why Diversity Matters
2:16 Flower Shape and Why Diversity Matters
2:50 Native Grasses to Level
All Comments (12)
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Native grasses and bamboo are great butterfly host plants that are often forgotten and can be a welcome addition to the landscape.
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I always make sure I plant lots of zinnias and cone flowers. But I have many others also. And right now I'm growing Dill and Parsley under grow lights for the Black Swallow Butterflys that I raise also.
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Pollinator and denominator rhyme nicely ☺️ but I think your saying is more catchy!
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Thank you for these tips
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fantastic! may in the future you can go more in depth on the 4 3s for happy bees
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So simple, direct and concise. Love your enthusiasm. Makes great sense. Excited to be planting with these details in mind.
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Great video!!!!🎉 Super helpful!
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Great info 🦋🐝
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So simple, direct and concise. Love your enthusiasm. Makes great sense. Excited to be planting with these details in mind.
