I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and I am working on attracting butterflies to my backyard. I have planted several different kinds of host and nectar plants for butterflies which live in this part of Texas. I started out with lantana and parsley the summer of 2011. In the fall of 2011 I planted several new nectar and host plants . Every year I've tried to add new flowers. Now it's June 2017 and a lot of my nectar plants are thriving! Lantana is one of the most visited plants in the spring and the fall. Frostweed is the star in September! The butterflies, especially Monarchs, visit and lots of bees and colorful flies! It's a great day for me if I see several butterflies fluttering through my yard visiting the flowers. Here's a couple of photos from my yard of a Monarch and another butterfly on Frostweed.
Welcome to Steemit! I love butterflies! I've had a lot of luck attracting swallowtail butterflies to my work garden the last couple of years with parsley and carrots. I actually have swallowtail butterfly caterpillars in both right now in various stages of growth. They're really neat to watch developing.
That's great! I love to see the caterpillars and then it's so exciting if you find a chrysalis! I'll share my photos of my monarch caterpillars, chrysalis' and emerging butterfly at some point. I happened to be lucky and have them in my yard one fall.
I'm planning to do a post about my swallowtail caterpillars at some point. I have pics of them in multiple stages of development. Took a while for me to identify them last year after they first showed up. Thankfully I was cautious b/c I wasn't sure and just left them alone until they got big enough to make an id. I was watching for them this year. I have probably twice as many in this first batch as I had all year last year. I haven't actually found a chrysalis yet. I'll probably nerd out when I finally do and get all excited and take lots of pics lol
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Wow that would be amazing to do. I never thought to grow a butterfly garden. What made you think to do it?
Two nature centers in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas sell plants that are good for attracting butterflies to our yards. Butterflies and bees need all of the help they can get, with a lot of their habitats disappearing as more houses and office buildings go up. The Monarch butterfly is especially suffering! Their numbers are way down in the last 5 to 10 years
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Welcome to Steem. I am also new to this community.
Awesome pictures, looking forward to more!
As the daughter of flower farmers, sure do love how certain flowers attract butterflies! Good job!
In my gardens this year, I have few bedding plants along the edges, but my main flowers are dahlias and zinnias.
Last year, I had humming birds visit quite often. Hope they return!
Welcome to Steemit! :)