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Top Plants for Your Butterfly Garden

Create a best-on-the-block butterfly garden with these must-have plants.

Butterfly Weed
 

Butterfly Weed

Grow a butterfly weed or two and you're sure to have Monarchs. The adults drink nectar from the plant's summertime orange flowers, and the caterpillars eat the plant's leaves.

Here's a hint: Add variety to your garden with other milkweeds, such as annual bloodflower or tall swamp milkweed.

Name: Asclepias tuberosa

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: To 3 feet tall and 1 foot wide

Zones: 4-9

Grow it with: Liatris, another long-blooming perennial that Monarch butterflies love to visit.

Click here for more on growing butterfly weed.



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