The Butterfly Friendly Garden is the 13th Designer Bed installation, by Katie's Garden's Rose Martins.
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The Butterfly Friendly Garden has been designed and planted to showcase how we can encourage butterflies and moths into our gardens during their different life stages.
The aim is to build an ecosystem that provides flowers for nectar, food plants for egg laying and caterpillars, and safe places for chrysalis to hide.
The Buddleia (Butterfly bush) is probably the most widely known food plant. Others are lavender, sedum, scabious and verbena bonariensis. These are all a good source of nectar. The holly, Verbascum and thistles are a food source for the caterpillar, whilst leaving an area of longer grass and wild flowers is beneficial to hidden chrysalis. A source of drinking water is important, especially during our increasingly hot and dry summers. |
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Further information on how to encourage these beautiful and elegant insects into our gardens and how to participate in The Big Butterfly Count 2025 can be found on The Butterfly Conservation website
https://butterfly-conservation.org/ |
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TREE Malus domestica (Apple)
CLIMBER Lonicera heckrotti American Beauty (honeysuckle) GRASS Festuca glauca Intense Blue SHRUB Lavender Munstead SHRUB Buddleia davidii Buzz Hot Raspberry SHRUB Buddleia davidii Buzz Indigo SHRUB Buddleia davidii Buzz Sky Blue SHRUB Buddleia Poquito Magenta Munchkin SHRUB Buddleia davidii White Profusion SHRUB Cotoneaster x suecicus Coral Beauty SHRUB Escallonia Iveyi SHRUB Ilex aquifolium Silver Milkmaid (holly) ANNUAL Cosmos Purity ANNUAL Leucanthemum vulgare (ox eye daisy) PERENNIALS Achillea New Vintage Rose Centranthus ruber coccineous Pretty Betsy Knautia macedonica Scabiosa incisa Kudo White Scabiosa caucasica Perfecta Mid Blue Sedum matrona Sedum spectabile Sedum telephium Touchdown Teak Verbascum Pink Domino Verbena Lollipop Verbena hastata |
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Click to download the on-site handout featuring planting list
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