{"id":253,"date":"2014-07-28T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T06:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2014-07-24T05:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:28:31","slug":"butterflies-in-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/butterflies-in-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Attract Butterflies into your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/butterfly-garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left\" title=\"butterfly-garden\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/butterfly-garden-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"Butterfly Garden\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Create a paradise for butterfly and you will benefit from colour twice over. A garden full of eye and butterfly catching, fragrant flowers from spring to autumn can be achieved by selecting some of the following plants.<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly feed on nectar and need this energy giving resource. They also need water from moist soil to which you could add a sprinkling of salt or grow a plant that catches water between its leave like Teasel. Their eggs need food so plant some Cow Parsley, Nettles and Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Butterfly Attracting Flowers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lily of the valley &#8211; convallaria<\/li>\n<li>Rock Cress &#8211; Arabis<\/li>\n<li>Sweet Violets &#8211; viola odorata<\/li>\n<li>Shasta daisy and Coreopsis in summer<\/li>\n<li>Buddleia the butterfly bush in white pink or lilac or even Lilac it&#8217;s self<\/li>\n<li>Dahlia, Cosmos and marigold for their long flowering season<\/li>\n<li>Petunia, Verbena and fibrous Begonia<\/li>\n<li>Delphinium, Aster and Day Lily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Feeding Time by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/4706382292\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4008\/4706382292_5f08a99938.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding Time\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Tips to increase the Butterfly population<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not use insecticides<\/li>\n<li>Get a large variety of plants to attract a variety of butterflies<\/li>\n<li>Plant groups of the same flowers so they are easy to see not individual plants<\/li>\n<li>Butterflies like water so put out a full saucer or have small ponds<\/li>\n<li>Allow weeds like nettle for food for Red Admirals<\/li>\n<li>Leave out over ripe food as butterflies love them<\/li>\n<li>Learn to recognise caterpillars and leave them undisturbed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UK Garden Butterflies<\/strong><br \/>\nCommon Brimstone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<em> Gonepteryx rhamni rhamni<\/em><br \/>\nComma<br \/>\nHolly Blue<br \/>\nOrange Tip \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<em> Anthocharis cardamines britannica<\/em><br \/>\nPainted Lady<br \/>\nPeacock<br \/>\nRed Admiral<br \/>\nSmall Copper<br \/>\nSmall Tortoiseshell<br \/>\nSpeckled Wood<br \/>\nLarge white = cabbage white <em>Pieris Brassicae<\/em> &amp; small white<br \/>\nLarge Skipper \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<em> Ochlodes sylvanus<\/em><br \/>\nGreen Hairstreak \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>Callophrys rubi<\/em><br \/>\nCommon Blue \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>Polyommatus icarus icarus<\/em><br \/>\nSmall Pearl-bordered Fritillary \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<em> Boloria [Clossiana] selene<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are a total of 59 species of butterfly which breed in Britain plus several extinct species and a few migrants.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/environmental-gardening\/get-butterflies-in-your-garden\/\">Get Butterflies in your garden<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/products\/34\/butterfly-garden\/\">Create a Butterfly Garden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create a paradise for butterfly and you will benefit from colour twice over. A garden full of eye and butterfly catching, fragrant flowers from spring to autumn can be achieved by selecting some of the following plants. Butterfly feed on nectar and need this energy giving resource. They also need water from moist soil to which you could add a sprinkling of salt or grow a plant that catches water between its leave like Teasel. Their eggs need food so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/butterflies-in-your-garden\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}