43 Bee And Butterfly Garden Designs

In addition to the familiar honeybee, there are hundreds of native bee species that are also important pollinators.

Bee and butterfly garden designs. We planted the butterfly and bee garden along the entire front of the garden area with the arbor right in the middle. Since today is “don’t step on a bee day” it seemed only fitting to share a post about planning a garden for bees, along with their pals the butterflies and birds. See more ideas about bee garden, garden, plants.

Butterfly gardening involves planning your garden to attract, retain and encourage butterfly populations. Butterflies are attracted to brightly colored, simple flowers with good places to perch. This compact garden includes wildlife favorites like bee balm, sedum, and butterfly bush.

Taken together, these plants provide both food and shelter for visiting creatures of all sizes and types. To make sure that nectar is always available, choose your flowers so that something is always in bloom. Butterfly weed attracts butterflies and bees.

Many of the plants that attract butterflies require space to sprawl, so choose large pots, planters, or alternate containers. A variety of blossoms offers nectar to adult butterflies, while leafy food sources, such as parsley, nourish the larvae. Butterflies drink from places they can stay dry, so you need to provide rocks or something to perch on.

Good annual candidates for a butterfly garden include creeping zinnia (sanvitalia procumbens), marigold (tagetes spp.), mealycup sage (salvia farinacea), mexican sunflower (tithonia rotundifolia) and pentas (pentas lanceolata). Think of this as your diy butterfly garden kit: Provide shelter in your garden from elements such as wind, rain, or cold.

Most butterfly garden designs incorporate quite a few annuals to help achieve a steady flower show. Plant flowers of a single species in clumps about four feet in diameter instead of in scatterings so bees are more likely to find them. Which is about 35 feet to help give you an idea.