When creating a butterfly garden, the possibilities of what to include in your butterfly garden design are endless. I wrote an article a few days ago, on enhancing your garden to attract butterflies and received so may comments from readers keen to follow through and asking for more ideas. Here are some suggestions to help get you started. They are designed to spark the creative process of your mind and to get you started on your way to creating a lovely butterfly garden.

Before you even begin your butterfly garden, find out which species of butterflies are in your area. Consider taking an exploratory hike around your location, with a butterfly identification book. This may take a little extra time and effort, but the results will be worth it.

After you have compiled your list of local butterfly species, be sure to write down in your butterfly garden plan, what these particular species of butterflies use for nectar and food plants.

Be sure that your garden is in a location that provides at least six hours of sunlight per day. Butterflies are cold blooded creatures and therefore do better where they are warm and sheltered.

Wind can be a butterfly’s worst enemy, so be sure to have plenty of wind protection in your design. You can plant tall shrubs and other plants in order to create a wind break, but a location that avoids heavy winds is even better.

The best of all would be a butterfly garden placed on the sunny side of your home, with windbreaks on both the west and east sides, or wherever the prevailing winds come from in your area.

Try to locate your garden close to a window, so you can view the butterflies from indoors. Provide seating outside, in the garden too.

If possible, you could excavate an area and build a stone wall around it. This would create the ideal windbreak for your butterflies. Make gravel pathways around your garden, to save walking in mud.

There are many creative ways for constructing a butterfly garden. Take your time to design a garden that you will enjoy and be proud of and one that you can show off to friends and neighbors.

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