Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

Create a garden that flutters with life!

 

Protect and nurture the best-loved of garden guests: butterflies, nature's kaleidoscopes with wings. The Xerces Society introduces you to a variety of butterflies who need our help, and provides suggestions for native plants to attract them, habitat designs to help them thrive, and garden practices to accommodate all their stages of life. Join the effort to conserve butterflies and moths, and learn proven strategies for welcoming these extraordinary visitors.

"Celebrate Earth Day by taking cues from Gardening for Butterflies, which suggests the best blooms for attracting spring's prettiest winged creatures." -- Martha Stewart Living

 

"There are chapters on designing a butterfly garden, creating shelter, butterfly plants, installation and maintenance, observing and conserving, even tagging butterflies to help track migration. But the best part of this book might be the photographs of these incredible creatures." -- Country Gardens

 

"Gardeners interested particularly in the ecological issues of pollinator conservation will want this book, which provides them with the rationale and tools for supporting and promoting pollinators." -- Library Journal

 

"An introduction to some of the most endangered butterflies and a guide to creating a garden that can protect and nurture them." -- Gardens Illustrated

 

"Outstanding. . . . Perhaps the most appealing aspect of butterfly gardening is that you can really make a difference for butterflies and other pollinators in your backyard. This Xerces Society book is a great guide to get you started or to enhance your existing efforts." -- Wildlife Activist

"You--a large, warm-blooded creature incapable of flight--actually have something very important in common with the butterfly: You both adore flowers. In clear prose and lovely photographs, a new book-- Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects--tells how to make the most of that shared obsession." -- Columbus Dispatch