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🦋 12 Beautiful Butterflies You're Most Likely to See in July! 🌼July is one of the best months to enjoy butterflies! 🦋☀️A...
07/03/2026

🦋 12 Beautiful Butterflies You're Most Likely to See in July! 🌼

July is one of the best months to enjoy butterflies! 🦋☀️
As gardens, meadows, and wildflowers reach their peak, many butterfly species become easier to spot. If you look closely, you may find colorful visitors like Monarchs, Swallowtails, Painted Ladies, Viceroys, and many more.
Want to attract even more butterflies to your yard?
🌸 Plant native flowers that bloom through summer.
🌿 Include host plants for caterpillars.
💧 Add a shallow water source or damp area.
🚫 Avoid broad-spectrum pesticides whenever possible.
☀️ Leave a few sunny, sheltered spots for butterflies to rest and warm their wings.
A butterfly-friendly garden doesn't just look beautiful—it also helps support pollinators and local biodiversity.
🦋 Which butterfly do you see most often where you live?

Brighten up your garden with these warm-weather favorites. Full story ⬇️https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/garden-i...
06/19/2026

Brighten up your garden with these warm-weather favorites. Full story ⬇️

https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/garden-ideas/a71538137/flowers-plant-june/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a321bca8a52780001a61058&utm_campaign=trueanthemFBCLGphoto&utm_content=6a321bca8a52780001a61057&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=Iwb21leASiImBjbGNrBKIiWmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvQDx9WIh6wLVY_B08irielCncpnvHvRGhjOQmXHW61DVB-uqVa0xqNcg4cx_aem__K_g-k-vECqcfDQLnnzEbg

Garden centers love that you believe the sowing window slammed shut in April. It's how they sell you $15 plants in July ...
06/13/2026

Garden centers love that you believe the sowing window slammed shut in April. It's how they sell you $15 plants in July that bloom for three weeks and quit. Meanwhile a $3 packet sown in June outlasts them all. Here's 12 to direct sow now for bold color straight into fall.

https://www.gardeningchores.com/flowers-to-plant-in-june/?utm_source=fb-girls-with-gardens&fbclid=Iwb21leASaSAZjbGNrBJpIA2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiKkPoBeVbFrjGEUdKKN2pKJfJ1QhLsHv9PHLykXSwbXtUcPHUfa6QEWq5Aj_aem_rrzw1F3Q5TwuRd7f8bTwFg




A lot of people start out planting flowers just to get some bright color in the yard, but then they get hooked on watchi...
06/07/2026

A lot of people start out planting flowers just to get some bright color in the yard, but then they get hooked on watching all the butterflies that show up. Before you know it, you're out there hunting down milkw**d, dill, and wild violets, realizing that those caterpillar host plants are just as important as the pretty blooms.

The funny thing is, a truly successful butterfly garden is almost never neat and tidy. You have to get used to seeing chewed-up leaves, native plants spreading wherever they want, and everything looking a bit wild. If a plant gets totally stripped down to the stem, you don't panic—you just learn that what looks like a mess today is going to turn into wings in a few weeks.

After a few seasons, you really start spotting the patterns. You notice exactly which butterflies come back year after year and which specific bushes or flowers they always swarm. Every single yard ends up with its own unique mix of regulars, and that's usually the exact stuff local gardeners love swapping stories about over the fence.







Butterflies need more than pretty flowers 🦋 A few things I like to remember:🐛 Host plants feed caterpillars, so chewed l...
06/07/2026

Butterflies need more than pretty flowers 🦋 A few things I like to remember:
🐛 Host plants feed caterpillars, so chewed leaves are not always a bad thing.
🌿 Milkw**d is especially important if you want to support monarchs.
🌸 Nectar plants like coneflowers, asters, and goldenrod help adult butterflies.
☀️ Sunny spots work best because butterflies love warmth.
🍂 I leave some stems standing longer at the end of the season for wildlife.
A butterfly garden feels more natural when it’s allowed to be a little imperfect 🌼


Monarch Magnet Garden🦋 Want monarchs to notice your yard? Plant what they are already searching for.Many gardens look pr...
06/05/2026

Monarch Magnet Garden

🦋 Want monarchs to notice your yard? Plant what they are already searching for.
Many gardens look pretty but offer very little for butterflies. Monarchs need more than decoration — they need nectar plants, habitat, and the right plant mix to keep them coming back.

🌿 A smart monarch waystation starts with plants like swamp milkw**d, butterfly w**d, wild blue indigo, pale purple coneflower, Joe Pye w**d, blazing star, wild bergamot, black-eyed Susan, prairie dropseed, little bluestem, mountain mint, and rattlesnake master.

🦋🦋🦋 Butterfly w**d and milkw**d are the host plant for monarchs. Any plant in the asclepias family. Without them, monarchs cannot continue their life cycle!

🌼 These plants do more than fill space. They create a living landing zone for butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.

✨ If your garden feels quiet and lifeless, this is the kind of planting plan that can make it move, flutter, and buzz again.

‼️‼️‼️and please dont spray chemicals EVER!‼️‼️‼️🫶😘

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The border plants that earn their space are the ones still looking good in August when you haven't watered in two weeks....
05/31/2026

The border plants that earn their space are the ones still looking good in August when you haven't watered in two weeks. 🌿

All 11 of these are either native to North American gardens or fully naturalized — no coddling, no deadheading required to keep them producing, and most improve with a little benign neglect after the first season.

A few worth knowing before you plant:

- Coneflower (Echinacea): native perennial that draws bees all summer and goldfinches in fall if you leave the seed heads standing. Gets better every year with minimal input
- Karl Foerster feather reed grass: one of the most reliable ornamental grasses in the US, zones 4–9. Goes vertical fast and holds its structure through winter
- Russian sage: drought-tolerant once established, blooms blue-lavender from midsummer through frost. Cut back hard in spring, ignore it the rest of the year
- Baptisia (false indigo): slow to establish in year one, but once it's in, it's essentially permanent. Native, deer-resistant, blooms in late spring before most other perennials
- Yarrow: spreads readily, tolerates poor dry soil better than most plants in this list. Deadhead for repeat bloom or leave for pollinators
- Black-eyed Susan: native, self-seeds, blooms June through September. The backbone of a low-maintenance summer border
- Daylily: spreads into clumps that fill space without asking for anything. Divide every few years if they get crowded
- Sedum Autumn Joy: one of the best late-season perennials — holds interest from late summer seed heads right through winter
- Catmint: long-blooming blue-purple, repeat-flowers after cutting back mid-season. Bees love it and deer don't
- Lamb's ear: grown for the silver-gray foliage, not the flowers. Fills edges and softens transitions between taller plants
- Creeping thyme: ground-level filler that handles foot traffic, blooms in early summer, and stays tidy without any work 🌸

Build a border around these and it runs itself.



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