sunny pao, porch or balcony can be home to your own buerfly habitat garden. Because a habitat garden sup- ports the enre life cycle of a buerfly, it must provide both nectar plants for buerflies to eat and host plants on which they can lay eggs. Caterpillars hatch from the eggs, eat the leaves of the host plants, change into chrysalis form, and finally emerge as buerflies. The enre process takes only about four or five weeks! All you need to create your own buerfly habitat is a pot or hanging basket, some good pong mix, and a variety of nectar and host plants. If your pot or basket is large enough, plant mulple idencal plants together to make them more visible and aracve to buer- flies. Buerflies are aracted to purple, orange, yellow and red flow- ers. Plants that aract buerflies are: Butterfly Nectar Plants: Alyssum – Lobularia maritima Cosmos – Cosmos spp. Dianthus – Dianthus chinensis Lantana – Lantana hybrids (trailing or upright) Marigolds – Tagetes patula Pentas – Pentas spp. Verbena – Verbena hybrids (trailing or upright) Zinnias (Profusion series) shorter variety Butterfly Habitat Gardens in Pots or Hanging Baskets Monarch Buerfly on Lantana Tiger Swallowtail Buerfly on Pentas A Marigolds
2
Embed
Butterfly Habitat Gardens in Pots or Hanging Baskets · 2017-06-29 · butterfly habitat garden. ecause a habitat garden sup-ports the entire life cycle of a butterfly, ... in Pots
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
sunny patio, porch or balcony can be home to your own
butterfly habitat garden. Because a habitat garden sup-
ports the entire life cycle of a butterfly, it must provide both
nectar plants for butterflies to eat and host plants on which
they can lay eggs. Caterpillars hatch from the eggs, eat the
leaves of the host plants, change into chrysalis form, and
finally emerge as butterflies. The entire process takes only
about four or five weeks!
All you need to create your own
butterfly habitat is a pot or hanging
basket, some good potting mix, and a variety of nectar and host
plants. If your pot or basket is large enough, plant multiple identical
plants together to make them more visible and attractive to butter-
flies. Butterflies are attracted to purple, orange, yellow and red flow-