Luxurious foliage and bright flowers attractive to butterflies fill your yard.
Native
plants enhance the microcommunity in your landscape for butterflies,
birds, and other wildlife.
Caterpillars, which metamorphose into butterflies, require special kinds of plants to feed upon. These are called hostplants. The food plants produce butterflies, and serve as their habitat.
Native plants, when put in a microsite suitable to their adaptations, will do extraordinarily well, require very little care, and will attract and produce numerous butterflies.
You can even set up a butterfly garden in a container on your patio! Plant these plants, and the butterflies will come.
Once your butterfly garden is set up, get to know their fascinating behavior and how they interact with other animals and the plants they depend upon. Here are some special ways to enjoy your butterfly garden.
Get the book that tells it all, Florida Butterfly Gardening
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Florida Butterfly Gardening, by Marc and Maria Minno, is the definitive book on butterfly gardening in Florida, useful throughout the southern United States. To order, contact the University Press of Florida, 15 NW 15th Street, Gainesville, FL 32603, (352)392-1351.