{"id":15308,"date":"2015-07-13T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2015-07-16T01:21:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T08:21:15","slug":"wild-nectar-plants-for-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/wild-nectar-plants-for-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild  Plants for Butterflies by Height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a selection of wild flowers that have for generation helped provide food for butterflies. They are rich in nectar and even garden cultivated varieties should feature in your butterfly friendly garden. Even nettles feed butterfly larvae.<br \/>\n<a title=\"weedy dandelion by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4706745046\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4023\/4706745046_6e5e49c504.jpg\" alt=\"weedy dandelion\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Low Growing plants up to 12 Inches Tall<\/strong><br \/>\nPrimrose and Cowslip.<br \/>\nOrange Hawkweed<br \/>\nDaisy<br \/>\nDandelion<br \/>\nBirds-foot -trefoil<br \/>\nLesser Celandine<br \/>\nSweet Violet and Pansy<br \/>\nThrift<br \/>\nWild Thyme<br \/>\nWhite Clover<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a title=\"Michaelmas Daisy alba by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4010701307\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2637\/4010701307_76a09b835f.jpg\" alt=\"Michaelmas Daisy alba\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Mid Sized Plants 12-24&#8243; feet Tall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bluebell<br \/>\nCommon Knapweed<br \/>\nCorn Marigold<br \/>\nFeverfew<br \/>\nOxeye Daisy<br \/>\nMarjoram<br \/>\nYarrow<br \/>\nRagged Robin<br \/>\n<a title=\"Thrift by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5648991161\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5110\/5648991161_7704e8e12a.jpg\" alt=\"Thrift\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plants Growing over 2 feet Tall<\/strong><br \/>\nBladder Campion and white Campion or Silene<br \/>\nCornflower<br \/>\nDevils Scabious and field Scabious<br \/>\nTeasel<br \/>\nGreater Knapweed<br \/>\nMichaelmas-daisy<br \/>\nMusk Mallow<br \/>\nRed Valerian<br \/>\nPurple Loosestrife<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"B Cornflower by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3870160525\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3431\/3870160525_7a58164f81.jpg\" alt=\"B Cornflower\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/butterflies-in-your-garden\/\">How to Attract Butterflies into your Garden<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/environmental-gardening\/get-butterflies-in-your-garden\/\">Get Butterflies in Your Garden <\/a>has more nectar plants to consider<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Food and Energy sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many grasses support butterflies. Have areas of longer grass and mow through to create a path of shorter grasses.<\/li>\n<li>Perennials such as Knapweed and Centaurea look stunning and feed with nectar.<\/li>\n<li>Nettles and thistles are good for caterpillars as are currants and ivy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a selection of wild flowers that have for generation helped provide food for butterflies. They are rich in nectar and even garden cultivated varieties should feature in your butterfly friendly garden. Even nettles feed butterfly larvae. Low Growing plants up to 12 Inches Tall Primrose and Cowslip. Orange Hawkweed Daisy Dandelion Birds-foot -trefoil Lesser Celandine Sweet Violet and Pansy Thrift Wild Thyme White Clover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}