Six summer flowering plants to make your garden butterfly-friendly
How to attract butterflies to your yard this summer season
One of my favourite signs of summer is seeing the butterflies start to arrive in the garden.
They are one of the most important pollinators in our gardens, as well as bees and moths. Pollinators are the key to the biodiversity in our outdoor spaces, as without them, we would not have our plants in the first place.
Butterflies are so key to pollination because they can travel such long distances. They cannot hold as much pollen as bees, but the pollen they can hold will travel much further. Therefore ensuring the health and genetic variation of plants for a long time to come.
With so many habitats for butterflies being lost, it is more important than ever that we open our gardens up to these pollinators, not only so that we can enjoy them, but also to ensure that we don’t lose them forever.
There are many wonderful plants that will attract the butterflies to your yard, but here are six to get you started.
Red Valerian
When you start to look, you will see Valerian everywhere. This is because it is so prolific at setting seed.
