How to Plant a Butterfly Garden | This Old House

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  • This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how a garden can be made to attract butterflies. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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    - assortment of flowering plants
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    - small spade
    - garden trowel
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  • @SPDRailfan
    @SPDRailfan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Hi , I am Som from Calcutta , India. I am a butterfly lover and I am doing butterfly garden at my home since last 10 years. Now I am also doing the same in school , colleges or a friends place for spreading places for butterflies in the concrete city. I liked your video very much and the nectar garden is very very beautiful. I will be watching your all videos....

  • @scottrodolico5009
    @scottrodolico5009 9 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    As a guy from Boston, I just want to say that this video is really informative in a language i can understand!! :)

    • @Axess-sv8nq
      @Axess-sv8nq 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Whaddya talkin' about? We tawlk nawwmal up heah!

    • @draco4540
      @draco4540 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Axess-sv8nq i don't understand what you're saying. i'm a yooper and i only talk yoopernese.

  • @pinarellolimoncello
    @pinarellolimoncello 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Fantastic video, just makes me wonder why we didn't learn anything like this at school.

    • @EpicWin2005
      @EpicWin2005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Because schools only want you to comply and never question authority so you grow up to be a sheep.

    • @Mrs.TJTaylor
      @Mrs.TJTaylor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I did learn this in school!

    • @invaderzim1265
      @invaderzim1265 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I learned the basics of butterfly but all I remember is comply and never question authority.

    • @uditb.3993
      @uditb.3993 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      School teaches you garbage. Gold standard education come from observing your environment and real life experience.

    • @danielpettus1476
      @danielpettus1476 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EpicWin2005 False, I'm showing this to my high school class today in preparation for having my students design and construct a pollinator garden on campus.

  • @xibipiio991
    @xibipiio991 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    that was a really excellent video! I never knew a puddle/mud/stone area next to the flowers was beneficial to the butterflies. I've been interested in butterfly gardens for like 5 years, thankyou for that!!!

    • @SPDRailfan
      @SPDRailfan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Josh Teasdale yes, they need. Specially males. They get minarels to increase the chance of getting mating partner. The male who has more mineral stored in the body , will be fittest for mating. They transfer minarels to female/ egg through mating .But it is very small spot given here. Atleast 20-50sq ft . I have a buttefly garden at my home since 2005.

  • @ZE308AC
    @ZE308AC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Everybody should grow milkweed to help the monarch butterflies

    • @kinglyzard
      @kinglyzard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As long as you keep it down to native Milkweed species.
      Tropical Milkweed, though pretty, is a big no-no.

    • @nickimillennium
      @nickimillennium ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Common milkweed smells incredible

  • @MonikaLaleczka
    @MonikaLaleczka 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    great video!!!! i planted my 1st butterfly garden last year..and ended up also getting bees,humingbirds, and dragonflies...great tips on this video...

    • @SPDRailfan
      @SPDRailfan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MonikaLaleczka great job !!!!! I am from India and started my home butterfly garden 12 years back. Go Green . Happy butterflying.

    • @invaderzim1265
      @invaderzim1265 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What attracts dragonflies?

    • @jeannedurocher5577
      @jeannedurocher5577 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@invaderzim1265 Not being smart, but mosquitos! So if you have a little pond they will happily munch on the mosquitos that hang out there

    • @invaderzim1265
      @invaderzim1265 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeannedurocher5577
      *MOSQUITOES?!*
      NO THANKS 😨 😒

    • @lepidlover0557
      @lepidlover0557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@invaderzim1265 Just get some long and THIN poles or sticks and stick them in the ground, pointing straight up towards the sky.
      The dragonflies will perch there and eat any flies, gnats, mosquitoes, and any other flying pest that goes past them.
      Make sure to have space between each stick. I'd say at least 2 or 3 feet
      Also, make sure they're sturdy and not wobbly so that the dragonflies can perch easier

  • @sarahknight6627
    @sarahknight6627 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    That guy's accent tho...
    "Look at the cawla!" (color)
    lulz
    But on a serious note, this is very informative and something that I really want to do in the future. :)

    • @hotcocoa500
      @hotcocoa500 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sarah Knight his accent sounds voice is like a New York accent mixed British

  • @ginafriend1690
    @ginafriend1690 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Late planting in season for me, but it's true, the butterflies come just like that!! I love it! 🦋

  • @kinglyzard
    @kinglyzard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Butterfly feeders, basically rotting fruit on a pedestal, brings in a whole new cross section of butterflies that don't come to flowers often.
    Red Spotted Purples, Ruddy Daggerwings, Emperors and Malachite all will come to overripe apples, bananas and mangoes.

    • @nickimillennium
      @nickimillennium ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I tossed an overripe watermelon into my yard and it attracted a swallowtail

  • @butterflyplanet6626
    @butterflyplanet6626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love it.. great tips for a butterfly garden

  • @millieatr
    @millieatr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Does a Bahston accent also attract butterflies ??

  • @donnamarie4443
    @donnamarie4443 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love love love butterflies🦋
    Thanks for upload and info👍

  • @Morudae
    @Morudae 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    learned so much! thank you!

  • @ProfPoetry
    @ProfPoetry 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    VERY helpful, thank you!

  • @ishaan5183
    @ishaan5183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The cabbage white you were talking about is actually a female clouded sulphur!

  • @user-zl1om6ox2h
    @user-zl1om6ox2h 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very great garden

  • @Treegrower
    @Treegrower ปีที่แล้ว

    So much great info in this video!

  • @michelleroxy21
    @michelleroxy21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gorgeous garden! 🖤🦋🖤

  • @sylvainbouchard9142
    @sylvainbouchard9142 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1st to watch ... Nice ! Like this Chanel.

  • @catalinasimmons6314
    @catalinasimmons6314 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was thinking exactly that. I live in naples,fl. From Philadelphia,Pa.

  • @federalburrito
    @federalburrito 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love buttah-fly gah-dens

  • @MichaelJosephJr934
    @MichaelJosephJr934 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Miss this guy!

  • @cristinaesparza527
    @cristinaesparza527 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That butterfly that she called a Cabbage White was actually a clouded Sulphur

  • @johnmalerba804
    @johnmalerba804 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Buttafly Gahden!!!

  • @dhananjayanand8003
    @dhananjayanand8003 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good work

  • @darrencarney6771
    @darrencarney6771 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You need visit gardens in the UK.

  • @SmoothChino
    @SmoothChino 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The cheapest way to start a garden is from seed.

  • @AR-cp5dz
    @AR-cp5dz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:04
    "... or pupa..."

  • @ullgeologist
    @ullgeologist ปีที่แล้ว

    Here is an informative video about butterfly gahhhdens! 🤣

  • @vistaprime
    @vistaprime 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    that accent! Gahden

  • @JasonJayJJ1
    @JasonJayJJ1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If butterflies suck mud, I wonder if that's why I see wasps hanging around the wet mud around my sprinkler head today!

  • @rethablair6902
    @rethablair6902 ปีที่แล้ว

    New subscriber here😅

  • @staceygianoplos6381
    @staceygianoplos6381 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can I get a list of the plants and flowers shown in this garden?

  • @davidseifert9511
    @davidseifert9511 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Garden

  • @jenniferrogers7550
    @jenniferrogers7550 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok

  • @kestrelfishing3558
    @kestrelfishing3558 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:12 I’m pretty sure that’s not a cabbage white, but rather a sulphur or some species.

  • @krystynam4076
    @krystynam4076 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, I have a bat house on side of my house. Would butterflies thrive if I extend my flower garden and build some butterfly houses.

    • @redwolftrash
      @redwolftrash 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd say put them as far away from each other as possible; you never know how damaged a butterfly could be or how daring your bats could be.

  • @midnull6009
    @midnull6009 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hard time understanding him. He has a really thick accent...

    • @MiamiPush2theLimit
      @MiamiPush2theLimit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mid Null lol Boston accent I love it 🥰

    • @mauhuff
      @mauhuff 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love his thick Boston accent ❤️

  • @kinglyzard
    @kinglyzard 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow, here's a butterfly garden-brought to you by Orkin Pest Control
    Hmmmmm...