Butterfly Gardens
Download SVT's butterfly garden brochure, with tips on landscaping to improve wildlife habitat.
We call this our butterfly garden, but it should really be called a pollinator garden for all the many types of insects that have visited it since it was planted in spring 2006.
These types of gardens are designed and built specifically to attract butterflies, who look for two things: nectar and host plants. Nectar is food for the butterflies and host plants are where the female butterflies can lay their eggs, and on which caterpillars feed.
Butterfly gardens are primarily filled with brightly colored flowers to which the butterflies are drawn. Here's a list of some of the plants in the Wolbach Farm butterfly garden:
| Annuals | |
|---|---|
| Parsley | Petroselinum crispum |
| Pineapple Sage | Salvia sp. |
| Verbena Obsession Red | Verbena sp. |
| Verbena Imagination | Verbena sp. |
| Cut and Come Again Zinnia | Zinnia sp. |
| Hyssop | Hyssopus officinalis |
| Summer Snapdragon | Angelonia angustifolia hybrid |
| Summer Sun Sunflower | Heliopsis helianthoides |
| Perennials | |
|---|---|
| Beardtongue | Penstemon barbatus |
| Blue Buckle Stiff Beardtongue | Penstemon virgatus |
| Butterfly Flower | Asclepias incarnata |
| Cardinal Flower | Lobelia |
| Columbine | Aquilegia vulgaris plena |
| Coneflower 'Orange Meadowbrite' | Echinacea hybrid |
| White Coneflower | Echinacea pallida |
| Purple Coneflower | Echinacea purpurea |
| Joe-pye weed | Eupatorium purpureum |
| Crested Iris | Iris cristata |
| New England Aster | Aster novae-angliae |
| Palace Purple Coral Bells | Heuchera micrantha |
| Summer Phlox | Phlox paniculata |
| Canadian Phlox | Phlox divaricata |