Butterfly Gardens

Butterflies are magical.  Do you have a favorite or do you just love them all?

Butterfly Bonanza- Host plants & Nectar Plants for Several Species (Host Plants: Common Milkweed, Sweet Everlasting, Golden Alexander, Button Bush, New England Aster, Partridge Pea)  Nectar Plants: -Wild Sweet William Phlox, Butterfly weed, Wild Bergamot, Showy Tick Trefoil, -Bluestem Goldenrod,  Joe Pye Weed ,Clustered Mountain Mint, Purple Coneflower Total: 

Painted Lady Butterfly Plant -  (FS/PS, Med-Dry Soil) Appear May-October (Host Plants: Sweet Everlasting, Pussy toes, Pearly Everlasting.   Preferred Nectar Plant Combination   Late Figwort  -New England Aster   

Painted Lady Butterfly-

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly -Appear May-September Host Plants Are Trees MMG  does carry several of them(see the link  above) for more info on this butterfly . Nectar Plants-Milkweed & Joe Pye Weed  

Black Swallowtail Butterfly- Appear May-September (Host Plants- Dill ,  Golden Alexander)  Nectar Plants:  Butterfly weed, Wild Sweet William Phlox,  Zinnias   

Spring Azure Butterfly- Appear May-Aug, (Host Plants- New Jersey Tea,  Round headed bush clover, Nectar Plants: Common Milkweed, Common Ironweed, Red Clover, Wild Bergamot  

Pearl Crescentspot- Appear May-Oct Host Plant: New England Aster  Nectar Plants: Clustered Mountain Mint,  Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod, Blue Wood Aster,  Butterfly Weed  To

Clouded Sulphur Butterfly- Appears April-October, (Host Plants -Partridge Pea, Showy Tick Trefoil)  Nectar Plants:  Blue Wood Aster, Common milkweed, Purple Cone flower  T

Dreamy Dusk Wing Butterfly-Appear May-June (Host Plants- Willows, Poplars & Birch trees)  Nectar Plants:  Zinnias, Asters, Bee Balm, Sunflowers, Goldenrod, Yarrow, Joe Pye Weed 

Eastern Pine Elfin- Appears  May-June (Host Plants- White Pine Nectar Plants:   Meadow Blazing Star, Pale leaf sunflower, Wild Bergamot, 

 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail  -Appear May-Sept Host Plants: tulip tree ,wild black cherry ,and sweet bay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana). Willow, Lilac  Nectar Plant Combination: Joe Pye Weed, Common Milkweed, Wild Sweet William Phlox, Common Ironweed