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Butterfly Gardens

Anonymous Fri 14 Jul 2023 22:43:10 No.2613946 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2615545 >>2615789 >>2618827

Let's discuss how to cultivate and/or maintain a butterfly garden.

Any knowledge, personal experiences, or resources concerning butterfly gardens would be greatly appreciated!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Jul 2023 23:54:38 No.2613990 Report

Quoted By: >>2615775

>go to botanical garden plant sale
>Grab random things that say NATIVE and POLLENATOR on the tag
>install in yard
I saw one monarch on the tiny milkweed plant, planted some more milkweed of a couple variants but it'll take a while for them to get big. Once they're established it should be good bait. Most of the other flowers in my yard have some kinda bee or butterfly/moth come by them, hummingbirds too sometimes. It's wip I'll take a pic later.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Jul 2023 00:46:08 No.2614012 Report

Quoted By: >>2615547

I am into native plant gardening. If you focus on planting things that are native and beneficial in your area/ecosystem, they you will also get butterflies, but don’t focus totally on them. Plenty of bees, flies, wasp, hummingbirds that also need your help.
Find a video on YouTube from Douglas Tallamy, he repeats a 1.5 hr lecture on the importance of native plants. Very eye opening.
Not only do you want nectar and pollen producing plants, but you need host plants as well, which can be shrubs, and trees like oaks. Aim to have something blooming all the way from late winter to late fall. And the great thing is that getting native plants is cheap. Super cheap seed packets, or cheap starter plugs. Or you can collect specimens in nature, being a good land steward of course.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Jul 2023 18:11:54 No.2615545 Report

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>>2613946
Your best option is to get the native flowers that the butterflies are attracted to and it takes a few years to build up the population.
Butterflies love:
Mock Oranges
Sunflowers
Choke Cherries
Certain Willow types
Aster
Desert Sage
...etc

Focus on what's local it will usually do better and it will propagate itself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Jul 2023 18:14:04 No.2615547 Report

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>>2614012
I cultivate native plants but I don't plant them...per-se.
I will go out in the forest and trans plant trees and bushes I like but otherwise I just keep what I like and kill invasive species... I hate fucking grass.

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Anonymous Mon 17 Jul 2023 22:58:29 No.2615775 Report

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>>2613990
I and a hummingbird moth in my backyard once because I let a weed grow to flower

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Jul 2023 23:11:13 No.2615788 Report

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>>2615775
I see them frequently on my balcony. On lavender and anise hyssop mostly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Jul 2023 23:13:35 No.2615789 Report

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>>2613946
For your sanity, don't plant fucking milkweed unless it's in pots or you want to kill the neighbor's horses

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Jul 2023 06:38:53 No.2616902 Report

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>>2615789
Why? Does it spread ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Jul 2023 13:12:12 No.2616982 Report

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>>2616902
Like a plague. The roots spread in all directions and put up new plants in random spots. I had to tear up half my fucking yard because the people that lived here before me wanted to see butterflies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Jul 2023 13:37:37 No.2617456 Report

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>>2616982
why not go with it? what type of yard/garden do you have now? You could have planted other native plants

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Jul 2023 16:47:24 No.2617525 Report

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>>2617456
Because it takes over. It grows fast and shades out other shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Jul 2023 18:48:10 No.2618647 Report

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>>2615775
If you want to start a hummingbird territory war plant Crocosmia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Jul 2023 21:40:54 No.2618732 Report

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>>2618647
>we have always been at war with the eurasian hummingbirds
Based avian warmonger

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Jul 2023 23:39:13 No.2618778 Report

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>>2615775
>weed
pretty sure thats dame's rocket

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jul 2023 01:12:58 No.2618827 Report

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>>2613946
Its pretty easy to create a butterfly garden. Make sure to have enough pollinator and nectar plants but most importantly establish caterpillar food plants since many butterflies only lay their eggs on specific plant species. This way you will get a large population of butterflies in your garden

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Jul 2023 13:37:19 No.2619064 Report

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>>2618827
Good info with the host plants. Milkweeds for monarchs, spicebush for spicebush swallowtails, oaks and willows also for hundreds more

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