How to Build a Butterfly Garden in 5 Steps

Adding a butterfly garden to your yard will not only add bright colours it will be a point of beauty that you and your visitors will enjoy. This is a guide for how to build a butterfly garden in just a five steps.

Step 1: Chose A Location
When building a butterfly garden you can't just stick it any old place. Some thought needs to go into the location of your butterfly garden. A butterfly garden is something that you will want to see and enjoy not hide away. Ideally a butterfly garden should be located in a prominent sunny spot that is protected from the wind such as near a fence or some shrubbery and is somewhere that is fairly quiet.

Step 2 Do Some Research
Before heading out buying a bunch of pretty flowers and planting them in hopes of flocks of butterflies arriving first go out and do some research about butterflies in your local area. Each type of butterfly likes different flowers as they have preferences of nectar tastes and colours. There are also certain flowers that encourage butterflies to breed so you may want to include some of these in your butterfly garden as well. Find out the type of butterflies that live in your area and what flowers they like the most. A great place to get the required information is your local nature centre. You could also try the local library. You may also want to buy a book about butterflies so you can get even more enjoyment out of your butterfly garden. This way you can use your book to identify your various visitors and quickly look up a little bit of information about them.

Step 3 Dig The Garden
This step of the how to build a butterfly garden is pretty straightforward. Get out your gardening tools and dig the garden. You may want to add some nice soil to give your soon to be planted flowers rich soft soil in which to grow.

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