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The best part about gardening is that one not only gets a chance to relieve stress but also stays close to the nature. After all, what can be more delighting than watching butterflies flying around a home garden? You may be surprised to know that you can actually send an “invitation” to butterflies to visit your garden. Curious?
Modern day gardening is one of the best ways to enjoy nature at its best, especially during times when there is nothing but negativity, boredom, loneliness, and pollution in this world. With small efforts, gardeners can entice butterflies to visit their garden by creating a butterfly garden.
For this, you need to create a new planting bed for the garden and ensuring that the location of butterfly garden is not isolated from plants, especially flowers. Butterflies will find endless reasons to embrace your home garden if it has flowering shrubs and plants such as azaleas, weigela, rhododendrons, Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), dill, parsley, and lilacs. Some of the other butterfly enticing flower plants include hollyhocks, purple coneflowers (Echinacea), rhododendrons, Black-eyed Susans (rudbeckia), Buddleia, Mexican sunflower, cosmos, huechera, zinnias, beebalm, and cleome.
To give a new meaning to your butterfly garden, you can even decide to give a resting place by putting some flat rocks with shallow depressions in your garden and making arrangements for a source of water along with buying a butterfly shelter.
Last but not the least it is important that you buy a comfortable bench from where you can admire the butterflies appreciating your efforts to give them a good home.
October 6th, 2010 at 3:49 am
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