Even small gardens in built-up areas can support a great variety of butterflies if they contain the right plants. In the heart of London, the Museum's Wildlife Garden has recorded 23 species of ...

Provide the butterflies with warmth (a sunny spot), shelter (shrubs and trees) and nectar and butterflies will start to use your garden to feed and maybe even breed.

Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months. While just about any flower with nectar can ...

Invite these beautiful insects into your garden or green space – and in return they’ll help pollinate plants and add a splash of colour If you’ve got a sunny spot, you’ve got the foundations for a ...

Flowers with multiple florets that produce abundant nectar are ideal. Provide host plants for the caterpillar forms of butterflies. Supplement the garden’s flower nectar with a homemade feeder. Avoid ...

While the decline of the monarch butterfly is alarming, one of the remedies is simple. We need to increase native, pollinator-friendly species of milkweed throughout the US and Canada. And you can ...

With a small amount of design work, and by growing the best plants for a butterfly garden, you too can cultivate a ...

This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by RHS experts. Divided ...

Garden expert and owner of Lawn Edging, Tom Su, noted how December pruning prepares the plants for “better ... shrubs Summer-flowering shrubs such as butterfly bush and some hydrangeas require ...

Bumper crops of other bee species also visited in 2024. And Simpson spotted her garden’s first pipevine swallowtails (big, ...