Butterfly Garden Design

Attracting butterflies is a wonderful way to add an additional element to your garden. Proper butterfly garden design offers great joy to visitors of the garden by attracting these lovely flitting creatures for our amusement and delight. Proper planning can also ensure that your garden is a safe place for butterflies to gather.

Choosing a design for your butterfly garden is mostly a matter of personal preference. The butterflies care little about how you lay out the garden, but of course the plants that you use in the design are key to attracting these magnificent winged creatures. Some things to consider in your butterfly gardening design are the size of your garden and the types of flowers and plants you want to grow. Pick a style of garden that you like and ensure it contains the plants and flowers that appeal to the butterflies you wish to attract.

What kind of butterflies do you want to attract?

When choosing a garden design for butterflies, it’s a good idea to know what kinds of butterflies live in your area. You’ll want to research which flowers and plants attract the species of butterfly that are native to your area and that you want in your garden.

When designing your butterfly garden be careful how you coordinate the colors you choose for your flower beds. Although butterflies do not care about your choice of color, it's better to plan ahead. You want to avoid having your butterfly garden looking like a hodgepodge of unrelated colors and textures that could create confusion to you and maybe even the butterflies.

One way to come up with a good butterfly garden design is to draw and color a layout of your butterfly gardening plan to see what the finished product would look like. Keep in mind that warm colors like red and orange are flashy and showy. These colors have a greater impact against a strong green background. Cool colors such as blue and purple are soothing and toned down and would work better with a white contrast to create the look of freshness and brightness.

Some plants you might want to include in the design of your butterfly garden are: