Preplanned Garden

Butterfly Garden

We’ve partnered with Grow Native to bring you an easy-care native butterfly garden. This garden packs in native plants that butterflies adore.

Butterfly Attracting Plants

One of the great joys of having a garden is watching butterflies. On a sunny June or July morning, when the garden is at its peak, butterflies flit from flower to flower in search of nectar and a sunny spot to rest. With this guide, you can select the perfect plants for your dream butterfly garden.

By choosing the right plants and following a few simple guidelines, you can lure many different species to your butterfly garden. Pay extra attention to plant selection, and you can support a full butterfly lifecycle. While flowers produce nectar, specific host plants are needed so butterflies can lay eggs and feed caterpillars when they emerge. See host plants here.

Butterflies begin laying their eggs in late spring and hatch 3-6 days after they are laid. It takes 3-4 weeks for a caterpillar to pupate and 9-14 days to emerge as an adult.

Preplanned Garden

Butterfly Garden

Asimina triloba – Pawpaw Tree

Caryopteris – Dark Knight Bluebeard

Caryopteris – Grand Bleu Bluebeard

Chrysanthemum – Mum

Echinacea – Dark Shadows Wicked Coneflower

Echinacea – Fresco Apricot Coneflower

Hibiscus lasiocarpus – Rose Mallow

Lantana Lucky Sunrise Rose

Rudbeckia – Sunbeckia Laura Black-Eyed Susan

Rudbeckia laciniata – Cutleaf Coneflower

Salvia – Blue By You Meadow Sage

Salvia – Rose Marvel Meadow Sage

Amelanchier alnifolia – Obelisk Downy Serviceberry

Andropogon – Blackhawks Big Blue Stem Grass

Anemone – Puff Pink Windflower

Asclepias incarnata – Swamp Milkweed

Asclepias syriaca – Common Milkweed

Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Milkweed

Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed

Asimina – Shenandoah Peterson Pawpaw Tree

Astilbe – Go Go Red Reblooming False Spirea

Cercis – Ruby Falls Redbud

Cercis Flame Thrower Redbud

Chrysanthemum Mammoth Lavender Daisy Mum

Clematis Diamond Ball

Echinacea – Cara Mia Coral Coneflower

Echinacea – Double Scoop Watermelon Deluxe Coneflower

Echinacea – Revelation Coral Coneflower

Hibiscus – Edge of Night Rose Mallow

Hibiscus – Summer Carnival Rose Mallow

Hydrangea – Bobo Panicle Hydrangea

Kalimeris – Blue Star

Liatris spicata Blazing Star

Monarda – Balmy Tricolor Bee Balm

Phlox paniculata – Jeana Garden Phlox

Phlox pilosa – Prairie Phlox

Ratibida pinnata – Gray Head Mexican Hat

Rudbeckia – Indian Summer Black-Eyed Susan

Andropogon – Holy Smoke Big Blue Stem Grass

Anemone – Fall In Love Sweetly Windflower

Anemone – Frilly Knickers Windflower

Buddleia – Chrysalis Cranberry Butterfly Bush

Buddleia – Pugster Blue Butterfly Bush

Cornus – Garden Glow Red Twig Dogwood

Echinacea – Kismet Pink Lemonade Coneflower

Echinacea – Prima Ruby Coneflower

Echinacea pallida – Pale Purple Coneflower

Helianthus occidentalis – Western Sunflower

Hibiscus laevis – Halberd Leaved Rose Mallow

Hydrangea – Little Lime Punch Panicle Hydrangea

Hydrangea Can Do! – Reblooming Hydrangea

Hydrangea Quick Fire Fab Panicle Hydrangea

Kalimeris integrifolia – Daisy Mae Japanese Aster

Paeonia – Green Lotus Peony – Fresh Dug Roots for Fall Planting

Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem Grass

Sedum – Plum Dazzled Stonecrop

Thermopsis villosa – Carolina Lupin

Vernonia missurica – Missouri Ironweed

Zinnia Profusion Red Yellow Bicolor

Echinacea paradoxa – Ozark Coneflower

Liatris pycnostachya – Prairie Blazing Star

Spigelia marilandica – Ragin Cajun Indian Pink

Achillea – Milly Rock Red Yarrow

Allium – Millenium Ornamental Onion

Amelanchier – Autumn Brilliance Apple Serviceberry

Amsonia illustris – Shining Blue Star

Amsonia tabermontana – Willowleaf Blue Star

Anemone – Snow Angel Windflower

Anemone Curtain Call Deep Rose Windflower

Aristolochia tomentosa – Dutchman’s Pipe

Aronia melanocarpa – Chokeberry

Asimina – Allegheny Peterson Pawpaw Tree

Asimina – Pennsylvania Golden Pawpaw Tree

Asimina Mango Pawpaw Tree

Aster Grape Crush

Aster Showmaker Blue Bayou

Astilbe – Pumila False Spirea

Betula – Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch – Little King Dwarf River Birch Tree