Among the plants known to provide abundant nectar for adult butterflies, you can't beat pentas. The plentiful production of nectar, along with a profuse and long-blooming season, has earned pentas ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies ...

The words "butterfly garden" evoke a certain image — drifts of color and mounds of blooms with butterflies flitting from flower to flower sipping nectar. We envision coneflowers, buddleias ...

Butterfly pentas grow up to 24 inches tall and about 18 inches wide. The name "penta" comes from the Latin and means five, since each small flower has five petals. These plants are also commonly ...

Creating a butterfly garden is a delightful way to bring vibrant colors and lively activity into your outdoor space. Not only do butterflies add beauty, but they also play a crucial role in ...

The pentas fulfills all those preferences but the fragrance. Planted in loamy, moderately moist soil, a small one-gallon potted plant will turn into a compact, bloom-covered shrub in a single summer.

Milkweed, also known as butterfly weed, is an essential host plant, and the only host plant for monarch butterflies. “Butterflies like bright colors and tend to see things in groups,” Stansel ...

It’s 11 a.m. on a mid-September morning, and Amy Genender meets me in the front yard of her Highland Park home. She wears a hat and sunglasses to shield herself from the blazing sun and offers ...

North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright ...