Enjoy the Monarch Butterflies

Plant a Butterfly Garden this fall with

Moon Valley Nurseries

A beautiful and fun way to see more butterflies this fall is to plant a butterfly garden. During the fall your garden will attract not only monarch’s but also many other butterflies.

Add a colorful touch in your garden. A butterfly gardener reaps many rewards. People usually enjoy the same colorful flowers butterflies prefer, so a butterfly garden can win compliments from you and your neighbors.


Practice water conservation. If you plant a butterfly garden where there used to be lawn, there is also less grass to mow, which means less work with the lawn mower as well as less air and noise pollution if your mower runs on gas.


Create a diverse garden. Butterflies like lots of different plants, so creating a garden adds biological diversity to your yard. Diversity can reduce populations of pest insects by making it harder for them to find their host plants. Butterflies also often like native plants. Including those species in your garden usually means less maintenance, since those plants are used to the natural weather conditions in your area. Butterflies themselves are an important part of the ecosystem, and can pollinate many plants.

Trees and plants that will attract butterflies
 Butterflies love the Shoe String Acacia Tree. It is an evergreen desert tree and is a fast grower and looks great in a desert landscape. Call Moon Valley Nursery at 602-938-6666 today and start attracting monarch butterflies to your shoe string acacia tree.

Butterflies are attracted to Parry’s Penstemon. This shrub is not only beautiful, but also very easy to grow. It looks well in any landscape and will compliment other plants already established in your garden.

Tip


How do you tell the difference between Mr. and Mrs. Monarch Butterfly? Telling the difference between Mr. and Mrs. is easy. A male butterfly has two distinct dots at the bottom of its wings and its black veins are less pronounced. In contrast, a female butterfly doesn’t have dots and her veins are ‘thicker’.



male





female


Fall is a great time to spend time in your garden. By planting trees and plants that will naturally attract butterflies is a great way to add to the conservation of the environment and enrich your landscape. A Moon Valley Nursery staff member will be able to suggest more plant material that will attract a flurry of monarchs to your garden this fall.

Moon Valley Nursery 602-938-6666  http://www.moonvalleynursery.com/