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Grow Host Plants For Monarch Butterflies

It takes more than nectar to entice butterflies to take up residence in your garden. Larval host plants are the secret to successful butterfly gardening; they are plants required by a caterpillar for growth and development. By planting host plants in your garden, you offer a promise of food for the next generation and will attract more butterflies than you thought possible.

Monarch Butterfly sips nectar from a beautiful pink zinnia in a wildflower garden.

Nectar Plants For Monarch Butterflies

Nectar-rich flowers attract Pollinators to stop and feed. Check out this article to learn the Monarch Butterflies favorite Nectar Plants.

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Pollinator Garden Design

Ideas For Your Large Yard To Attract Pollinators

In large yards, you can truly create a pollinator paradise! The more flowers, the better (just in case you needed an excuse for more plants.) Whether you add clover to your lawn or replace the whole space with perennial plants and wildflowers, more flowers mean more food sources and habitat for pollinators. Wildflower yards are a growing trend, and we’re excited to see so many gardeners embrace meadowscaping. In your large yard, you can grow a beautiful meadow as a pollinator paradise.

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Ideas For Your Mid-Size Yard To Attract Pollinators

Mid-Sized Yards are great for planting pollinator patches around your yard! Plant flowers along your fences, side yards, and walkways to encourage pollinators to visit your yard. Where you have space, consider adding a mini meadow with wildflowers for an abundance of blooms. Take a cue from a traditional garden bed and add a border to your mini meadow for an attractive accent.

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Ideas For Your Small Yard to Attract Pollinators

In small yards, you can still plant plenty of flowers to create a pollinator pit stop! This will help nourish bees and butterflies as they fly between larger habitat areas on their search for food. Create an unexpected flower bed where there were once just patches of turf. Small changes add up - every year you can make the bed a little bit bigger. This approach makes turf removal a less overwhelming project.

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Ideas For Container Gardens To Attract Pollinators

Yes, you can even plant for pollinators without a yard! Pollinator pit stops help give bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and moths a stopping place on their search for food. Imagine if everyone in your building or neighborhood put out a snack for pollinators - it would easily become a feast to support a healthy pollinator population.

Sidewalk gardens, also called hell strip gardens or park strip gardens, may be in a high-traffic area, or hard to reach with a hose. Choose hardy, durable plants like an American Meadows wildflower seed mix, or drought-tolerant perennials like Nepeta, Yarrow, Sedum, and Coreopsis. Unexpected Beauty, Low Maintenance, Gardening Tips, Garden Plants, Yard, Canning

Ideas For Your Sidewalk Garden

These spaces may be narrow, but there is a wide variety of plants that will add curb appeal to your yard! These are spaces where we can meadowscape to add unexpected beauty. Plant a garden here to make someone smile, and to help raise awareness for pollinators, too.

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Monarch Caterpillar enjoying some Butterfly Weed!

Customer photo by Leroy S. of a Monarch Caterpillar enjoying some Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) Native Milkweed plants, including Butterfly Weed, are the sole host plants for monarch butterflies. Their nectar-rich blooms also provide essential food to native bees and many other pollinators. Click the link to see more Asclepias available at American Meadows.

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How to Grow Milkweed Seeds

Check out our Guide to Growing Milkweed Seeds: 🦋Understanding Milkweed (Asclepias) Seed & Germinating 🦋Growing Indoors 🦋Transplanting Milkweed (Asclepias) Seedling Outdoors 🦋Caring for Milkweed (Asclepias) Plants