Before you even your Butterfly Garden, find out what types of butterflies in your environment. Consider an orientation walk around your location with a butterfly identification book. This can be a little extra time and effort, but the results will be worth it. After you have compiled your list of local butterfly species, you need to write down in your butterfly garden plan what this particular species of butterflies use for nectar and food plants.
Make sure your garden in a location that offers at least six hours of sunlight per day. Butterflies are cold-blooded creatures and therefore do better where they are warm and sheltered. Wind can be that of a butterfly worst enemy so make sure you have a lot of wind protection in your design. You can high shrubs and other plants plants to create a break from the wind, but a location that comes from heavy winds is even better. Best of all would be a butterfly garden posted on the sunny side of your House with windbreaks in both the West and East sides, or where the prevailing wonds in your area. Try and search your garden close to a window, so you can view the butterflies of indoors. Also offer outside seats. If possible, could you Excavate an area and build a stone wall around it. This would lead to the ideal abri guy for your butterflies. Mmake gravel paths around your garden to save walking in the mud. There are many creative ways for the construction of a butterfly garden. Take the time to designing a garden that you will enjoy and be proud of.
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