Butterfly Host Plants: Cabbage & Cabbage White Butterflies-SoCalNPG ep. 42

This is about the Cabbage White butterfly and its host or food plants, cabbage and broccoli. It is from our California native plant garden. Part of a series on butterfly gardening, it shows how to attract butterflies to your garden by planting butterfly host plants.
You will greatly increase your chances of attracting butterflies to your garden if you plant butterfly food plants. Butterflies will lay eggs on the host plant, the eggs will become caterpillars which will eat the host plant. After they pupate, they'll emerge, in your backyard, as butterflies and the cycle will begin again.

[@lepidlover0557]

It's the same way for me. I see the most Cabbage Whites during the Spring, when Brassica Plants are starting to bloom.
They don't really come to my yard, but I see them all the time when I'm on the road.
I have mustards that I have been grown from seed, for the pollinators in the Spring. I just have to get around to transferring them into the ground 😂

[@southerncalnativeplantgard3777]

Thanks for the comment. Out of curiosity where are you located?

[@user-yo7eg1jv7k]

If you are not familiar with Carbon Canyon Regional Park everyone should check out the butterfly garden there. Go to the far east end of the parking lot, no long hike required. This morning I saw a party of cabbage whites, perhaps 15-20 of them. They were crazy for the electric blue sage. I figure that their host plant must be the mustard plants in the park.

[@southerncalnativeplantgard3777]

Thanks for the suggestion. We have been there to walk the nature trail over to the redwood groves, but I haven't been there recently. I'll have to check it out.