Top 5 Perennials for Butterfly Garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- This video lists the top 5 perennial plants to put into your butterfly garden as outlined by Dave the Butterfly Guy. These plants will attract a variety of Butterflies and add color to your garden.
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The Monarch has been listed as endangered. We need this information now more than ever. Thank you!
It is very sad that the Monarch is now on the endangered species list! Yes, it is time for people to step up their game in terms of creating habitat for butterflies!
The Elton John song was a perfect touch!!😊
Exactly what I was looking for! These are definitely getting added to my flower garden.
Fabulous! I wish you the best on your garden!
I suggest people also try New England Asters as a perennial. They are a native North American plant that blooms from around late August , early September until a killing frost in October. Butterflies, Humming Birds and Bumble Bees love them. They are also a host plant for the Pearl Crescent butterfly
Jim, thanks for the note. I planted New England Asters last year, although they didn't bloom, but this year they have come back strong and I look forward to them blooming. I can't wait to see if they attract more butterflies.
Good choices.
Thanks Dave!
Great suggestions, I’m in Canada so I have to check the blazing star against my zone. I’m growing butterfly weed from seed this year, I’m excited to see the plants take root the next few years.
Good luck with your planting. My butterfly wed from seed took 2 years before it started to grow?
Thank you for the tips! Very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome I have all of those in my yard!
Excellent! Plus my new favorite pollinator is Hyssop. Butterflies swarm to this flower.
Aw, love it, thank you,,
I'm glad you like it
Thanks for the easy information.
Glad it was helpful!
thank you sir great video
I glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks! I’m a relatively “green” gardener - just started this glorious hobby a few years ago - and I’ve got my gardens about 80% full now (but never complete, as I’m learning 😂) but I realized I don’t have enough natives and host plants.
I have a lot of phlox, yarrow and sedum which as you mentioned, beneficial insects love (I have a crazy amount of bees) but I haven’t noticed a lot of butterflies, let alone the Monarch. I’m going to add some milkweed - both tuberosa and incarnata -and I planted a bunch of liatris bulbs already. Fingers crossed 🐛🦋
Oh -and there’s a new (or at least, new to me), dwarf non-invasive / non-spreading goldenrod called Little Miss Sunshine that looks promising. I may plant a drift of 3 of those.
If anyone has experience with this plant, please let me know if it’s truly non-spreading (or at least, easily controlled) and non-allergy inducing as they claim. Thanks!!
I love butterfly weed (Tuberosa)! It sounds like your garden is wonderful! Hyssop is another great flower to attract butterflies!
Thank you ,i've been looking for this information
Glad I could help
Such a great video - thanks for all these great ideas! I was so happy to see that I have all of the plants you listed (some are just babies, like the blazing star)! Woo hoo! I didn't realize they were so great, but I'll be keeping an eye out for 🦋s more on these from now on!
You do such a great job in your garden. I love the new fence!
This is my one video that has some traction, I wish I could duplicate the views with some of my other videos?
@@davethebutterflyguy9841 @Dave The Butterfly Guy aww!! Thanks so much! It has transformed our space for sure! I think top 5 videos are so easy to digest - they're quick and simple, and something attainable that people can strive for! Another thing that I think might be interesting is top 5 for the different types of butterflies - it seems like butterflies are super picky and each one will only use a handful of plants to host their larvae. Just an idea for ya! Happy gardening 🌸
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Well done Dave! I have a few Butterfly bushes that the swallowtails seem to love! Unfortunately we are still waiting for snow to melt. I can't wait for some nice weather!
It's good to have a real variety of flowers. Where I live we don't have cold winters so we have butterflies all year round.
Our winters get cold. I am amazed that butterfly chrysalis's can survive the winter and become butterflies in the Spring. Thanks for watching.
Have them all except for butterfly weed, but do have purple milkweed, swamp milkweed, and common milkweed. The butterflies love my parsley last year found caterpillar and it was fun to watch it. Another thing that is butterfly magnet for me is catmint.
Terry, it is fabulous you have these milkweeds. I don't know many people that have Purple Milkweed. I planted parsley and dill this year, hoping to get the Black Swallowtail to lay eggs. I have been thinking about planting some catmint. Thanks for the endorsement!
I am growing rue, dill, golden Alexanders, and milkweed, with plans to expand next year. In the same garden bed I have giant sunflowers, echinops, aster, scabiosa, Veronica (the vertical spike type), echinacea paradoxa, rudbeckia goldsturm, cosmos (2 kinds), marigolds, caryopterus, and more.
Another garden bed has yarrow, magnus coneflowers, mainacht salvia, monarda, English and lemon thyme (including gold and silver variegated lemon thyme), Jupiter’s beard, Veronica speedwell, and echinacea pallida.
I also have hedges: 15 different varieties of lilac, viburnum carlesii, viburnum burkwood “Mohawk”, abelia “sweet emotion”, abelia “ruby anniversary, 4 mock oranges, a vitex tree, seven son flower, red sand cherry, and Nanking cherry. I have a bunch of redbud trees, too.
That’s just part of the garden, btw. It’s a work in progress, I’m disabled so it will take me a while to get it done.
Your gardens are impressive and a butterflies dream. Well done! I love that you have dill in your garden. It is the host plant for the Black Swallowtail, a beautiful butterfly!
@@davethebutterflyguy9841 my garden is the culmination of a lifetime of work. I have put considerable thought, finances and effort into it, and hopefully it will be a lasting legacy.
Bee balm is another good one.
Agree, I just planted 3 Bee Balm plants in my garden last summer, I heard it helps keep deer out, since they don' like the smell.
Seems to me
Butterfly bush and Joe Pye weed and my number 1 and number 2
Both are tall and don't take up much real estate .
I have butterfly weed all over my pasture and the butterflies are a lot more attracted to the wild Ovate False Fiddleleaf growing around my pond. It grows in marshes but my pond drops around 8’ in elevation in our dry, hot Texas summers and it’s high and dry now and in heavy bloom. It blooms in the heat of summer when we’re in a dearth and not much else is blooming. My honeybees from my beehives really like it as do bumblebees.
I had not heard of this plant. It sounds like it thrives even in your hot, hot summers. Glad to hear you have pollinating flowers that last through your heat. I don't think it grows up here in Minnesota?
Two annuals that are butterfly magnets are zinnias and Mexican sunflowers (tithonia).
I have a lot of common milkweed growing in the country, but I rarely find Monarch caterpillars feeding on it. With the milkweed scarcity due to farmers using glyphosate, I was expecting to find lots of caterpillars.
I agree with you on the zinnias, they draw a lot of butterflies. I don't have any of the Mexican sunflowers in my garden but I will add next year. A bummer you aren't seeing caterpillars on the milkweed!
I have most of these. Another important one is sacrificial parsley to support the black swallow tail butterfly. It's their preferred host plant.
I agree John, This year I expanded my garden with a bunch of Black Swallowtail Host plants including Parsley, Fennel, Dill, Carrots and Rue. I have caterpillars already that are getting big!
I planted 3 Bronze Fennel plants this past Spring and ended up with at least four Black Swallowtail caterpillars. It made me so excited!@@davethebutterflyguy9841
Monarch Butterflies rate Common Milkweed number 1. And so do I. Common Milkweed is the Monarchs host plant. Necessary for Monarchs survival. Plant as much Common Milkweed as possible.
I love Common Milkweed and have over a hundred in my yard. I may need to update my top perennial list! Thanks for sharing.
I saw a few small Monarchs on my butterfly bush recently. I had heard about what you said….
1. Liatrus
2. Purple cone flower
3. Butterfly weed
4. Sedum
5. Phlox
I hope you like my choices!
I see a lot of questions about butterfly gardens in my Facebook garden groups - I'll be sure to link this video when giving tips!
You are the best! I appreciate your support. I also will make your site available to people who comment on my videos and my friends that love gardening.
@@davethebutterflyguy9841 thanks so much! It's great to help each other when we can! 😊🦋🥰
Also 3 plants to add are Joe Pye Weed, New England Asters and New York Ironweed. Both Joe Pye and NY Ironweed grow very tall and show be in the back of your garden. Out of the 3, I really like the color of the NY Ironweed flower cluster.
Lawrence, thanks for this note. I have Joe Pye Weed and New England Asters but I haven't heard of the Ne Your Ironweed. I will have to research that one a bit more.
@@davethebutterflyguy9841 You will love the color of the flower cluster.
Looking for advice for arizona deep southwest -- great clip -
Southwestern Region of the U.S., these are some of the plants that are recommended for a butterfly garden.
Milkweed for Monarch.
Passion vine for Gulf Fritillary.
Oak for Arizona Sister.
Pipevine for Pipevine Swallowtail.
Alfalfa and clover for Clouded Sulphur and Orange Sulphur.
Good Luck!
Which 2 of those would be best in Texas triple digit temps and very little to no rainfall in summer and in poor sandy soil?
Those are tough growing conditions for most plants. However, Sedums handle draught like conditions and hot sun better than most plants. They bloom later in the summer, Sept/Oct.
Still a bit of shade during the day would help all these plants during your hot summers. In MN it hasn't been nearly as hot as your weather but we have had many 90 degree days and it has only rained 4/10 of an inch in the past two months. Still my sedums and coneflowers look pretty good. I do water them weekly.
@@davethebutterflyguy9841 we’ve only had a 1/4” of rain in each of the past 2 months. 1/2” total. I’d never be able to water them because I’m too busy hand watering my trees and garden. I have 100s of pecan, fruit and flowering trees for my beehives. I have butterfly weed growing all over my orchard this year. I saw a monarch caterpillar on one yesterday when I was watering my trees. I need to brush hog mow to keep the destructive grasshoppers down but I hate to mow them down before they set seed. I guess I’ll try to maneuver around them and the trees. The grasshoppers are insane in this sandy soil. They’ll even eat the bark off tree twigs after they’ve stripped all the foliage. They’ll kill trees like peaches, apricots and plums. They’ve entirely stripped every leaf off one of my pears and a pecan tree. It’s odd how they pick a certain tree to devour when there’s a hundred more of the same species. With my beehives I hate to spray insecticides. Bees are very expensive nowadays. I’ll try adding those sedums in my orchard. I haven’t seen any of my honeybees working the butterfly weed. The butterflies and bumblebees are all over them.
I have seeds for both the Butterfly Weed and also the Butterfly Flower. The pictures on the seed packets look the same. Is there a difference in the two of them and if so, which is better for the Monarchs?
That is a great question. They are the same plant. The Garden Centers and nursery's decided to change the name from Butterfly weed to Butterfly flower. They think sales will go up calling it a flower vs a weed. It probably makes sense? However, there is no difference. They are milkweed plants with the fabulous orange pollinating flowers. Perfect plant for monarchs! I love this plant!
What do I do with my Butterfly Weed in the winter? Leave it alone, cut it back or burn it?
Hey Mike, I suggest letting it be over the winter. That way it gives some protection over the winter to insects. I trim mine back in the Spring. Butterfly Weed is la late grow in the Spring, it may not start to show until into June, but once it starts showing it grows fast.
I have 3 types of milkweed Common, Swamp Milkweed, and Butterfly weed. They seem to not lay eggs on the butterfly milkweed.
Yes, the butterfly weed seems to be there last choice for egg laying. You are on your way to becoming a Monarch Waystation!
@@davethebutterflyguy9841 I have registered my pollinator gardens as a Monarch Watch Waystation.
How about lantana? I live in hot humid louisiana and lantana seems to thrive here.
Today I went and bought Lantana. Although the only version I seem to find up North is an annual. I look forward to seeing how it does this summer. Thanks for the tip!
Subscribed. Have to get Liatris and Sedum. Have all the others..
The only insect I like better than butterflies - DON'T LAUGH!! Are Dragonflies. What do I do to attract THEM?
Liatrus are fantastic plants that butterflies love. There are a lot of different Liatrus Species. I just ordered 5 Meadow Liatrus Seedlings. They grow 4-5 feet tall with cluster flowers, then lead to lots of butterflies at one time feeding on them. Hey, I think a lot of people love Dragonflies, However, I don't know much about them. Sorry!
@@davethebutterflyguy9841 Have to get some Liatris. Thank you.
Have a small lotus pond, Dragonflies breed in water. Make sure to keep some small sized freshwater fish as well like Guppy, without fish you will have mosquito breeding in them.
@@narendrabhagwat4087 Thank you!
Of those five plants are any of them native to North America?
Stephanie great question. All 5 of these plants are native to North America.
The Phlox you showed at first is not Phlox but Dianthus.
Thanks for calling that out!
Yeah I noticed that too! But there were some phlox in there. 😅❤️
As many beekeepers are pointing out chemical pesticides are killing our pollinators. Do not treat your lawn anywhere near your pollinator garden and dont use pesticides on the garden either. The drift alone is toxic to pollinators which is why there are pollinator gardens with no pollinatiors.
Well said!
I have a healthy and vibrant Butterfly Weed perennial. In 3 three years I've never seen a butterfly land on it. 🤥
It isn't the most prolific butterfly attractor. I have had monarch caterpillars on mine maybe 3 of last 5 years, but not this year. However, I do love the orange when it blooms.
@@davethebutterflyguy9841: They are beautiful in bloom. I'm going to try to start some more. I accidently lied. I did see a brushfoot looking one which I couldn't ID. It was boxing out a honeybee for the last bloom of the year. Wasn't sure how I felt about that, the bees work the plant hard all of August. 🤥
I was gonna say that the 1st few pictures you showed were not phlox. It was dianthus.
Yes, you are right. The dianthus was near where I have Phlox and I screwed up. I need to see if I can edit that. Thanks for watching.
Omg you remind me of Kevin McCarthy the minority leader
I am not sure what to think of that? I hope Rep McCarthy likes butterflies!