Butterfly Gardening

Rob Rave's Weekly Bodacious Garden Tip's:
1.) Spray Liquid Fence for deer and fertilize your plants. 2.) Are your grasses and perennials cut back yet? 3.) Look for Sawfly on your Mugo pines. Spray with Sevin if you see any. More Bodacious Tips

Butterfly Gardening

Attracting butterflies to your garden is easy when you have the right combination of plants. Create a grouping with any of the following plants for your successful butterfly garden:

	Buddleia - Butterfly Bush Fast growing, large shrub with fragrant flowers in assorted colors of blue, pink, purple, and white.
	Caryopteris - Blue Mist Shrub Low growing, mounded shrub. Showy deep blue flowers in summer.
	Echinacea - Coneflower Medium growing, upright perennial; likes sun. Blooms of purple or white for 2-3 months beginning in early summer. 2-4'
	Lavandula - Lavender Compact, mounding perennial with fragrant, purple flowers. 12-14"
	Hibiscus - Hardy Hibiscus Beautiful, large blooms each summer of rose, red, pink, or white.
	Monarda - Bee Balm Large flowers with aromatic mint-like foliage. Grows well in full sun to part shade. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
	Rudbeckia - Black-eyed Susan Long-blooming, low maintenance perennial with tall blossoms from mid-summer to fall. Likes full sun to partial shade and tolerates drought. 2'
	Syringa - Lilac Medium growing vase-like shrub. Fragrant flowers in late spring; nice fall foliage.
	Viburnum Medium growing shrub with flowers in spring and berry clusters in fall. Very, very, fragrant.