Create a Butterfly Garden

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Open Question: Please help, Phobia of butterflies?
Hiii, i'm 14, female, and i have a reallly bad phobia of butterflies and moths. I am very embarrassed by it and only my close friends and family know of this, Just thinking about them makes me shiver and seeing a photo of one makes me go all swaety and it feels horrible. So when i'm out in the pakr with my friends in the summer, it's kind of hell. I mean, i lvoe being out with my friends so i'm not not going to have a lfie just because of my phobia but it's worsening. I've hated butterflies ever since i can and my parents can remember. I remember having to go butterfly catching in reception and sitting in the cloak room because i was too scared to go and see one, and on-one can rememebr a bad experience i may have had with them. The other night i was in the garden and a moth flew into my hand and i freaked out, like i found it very very hard to breathe and i was swaeting and i felt faint and thus carried on for about half an hour. Then i remember thinking there were butterflies all over me and screaming and freaking out more. It was horrible. I went to the doctor the other day and she was just saying you can gp and get therapy on the NHS but you'll have to pay and she reffered me on to some other places, but she really wasn't any help. I'm just wondering if any one shares this phobia as it's getting worse and i really want to get rid of it. Is there any way? It's really starting to make summer a misery and i absoluletly love summer so i dont want that to happen. Please help, advice ect. Sorry, i've gone on a bit, i didn't mean to write a book, thankyouu x read more...

Resolved Question: Starting a container garden, need help?
I promised my nephew we'd plant flowers to attract butterflies, but the only place we have room for it is on concrete. I have a 13L x 22W container that I'm planning on filling with the following: Ā Scarlet Bee Balm Ā Ā Ā Blue Fringe Daisy Ā Ā Ā Butterfly Blue Scabiosa Ā Ā Ā Tenor Tall Hybrid Phlox Ā Ā Ā Purple Coneflowers Ā Ā Ā Super Aster Daisies Ā Ā Ā Black-Eyed Susan Can all these plants fit in that container, if not what size would I need? and when is the best time to plant them? I won't get them until the end of September, most if not all will be sent bare root. read more...

These creatures put on a show, and give us many hours of enjoyment. Watching birds bathing and bats flitting about at night are great fun, but its the butterflies that are truly spectacular.

Butterflies are one of nature's most beautiful and delicate creatures. Creating a habitat for them will bring a variety of Butterflies to your yard for your viewing pleasure and it creates a safe haven for them to breed.

Incorporating plants that Butterflies are attracted to is easy to do. There are many types of shrubs and trees that Butterflies like, and even more perennials. When planting perennials in your garden for Butterflies to enjoy, plant them in groupings or clusters. Butterflies will be drawn to a large show of flowers more easily than just one or two plants.

Butterflies also like a rock or two out in the sun for them to warm their wings before flying in the early morning hours. They also are attracted to damp areas of the garden where they can suck fluid and salts from the soil. Shrubs and Butterfly Houses will protect them from wind and predators (mainly birds) Placing a Butterfly house in the center of a group of flowering perennials, they will be more likely to find and use it. Minimize the amount of chemical insecticides and herbicides you use, as these delicate creatures are very susceptible to their residue. Yet another reason to go organic!

Here is a listing of plants Butterflies are attracted to:

Shrubs/Trees:

Abelia
Buddleia (Butterfly Bush)
Blueberry
Hawthorne
Mock Orange
Pear
Plum
Privet
Redbud
Rose of Sharon
Spiraea
Summersweet (Clethra)
Viburnum
All of these shrubs/trees come in numerous varieties. They flower at different times of the season. Planting more than one variety will prolong your Butterfly season.

Perennials:
Althea
Ajuga
Asclepsias (Butterfly weed)
Aster
Centaurea
Coneflower
Coreopsis
Lantana
Lobelia (Cardinal Flower)
Mint
Monarda (Bee Balm)
Phlox
Rudbeckia (Black eyed Susan)
Sedum
Shasta Daisy
Verbena
Yarrow

Planting some of these varieties of shrubs and flowers in your yard will enhance its beauty, bring lots of Butterflies to your yard and give you a great reason to want to stay home.

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About the Author

Formerly a Garden Supply Retailer, Vera Pappas is now an author, writing articles and essays about organic gardening and environmental issues. She is owner of Green Nation Gardens, an online retail store offering organic and all natural garden supplies as well as sustainable outdoor living products. Visit Green Nation Gardens Today!

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