Gardening Tips : How to Make a Butterfly Garden

Making a butterfly garden involves growing leafy plants for caterpillars and planting fluffy blooms like leatrice, lavender and Black-Eyed-Susan. Create a butterfly-friendly garden with tips from a professional gardener in this free video on gardening.

Expert: Yolonda Vanveen
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash. She is the owner of VanveenBulbs.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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Howto & Style

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• gardening
• plants
• gardens
• plant care
• flower bulbs
• growing flowers
• starting a garden

[picatsoforfma]

Butterflies love my lantanas.

[p35kyw4g5]

great vid.. you mentioned eucalyptus,we have a mature 18yr old 35 feet tree and we recently had it trimmed, all the lims were weeping lots of butterflies were feeding on the sap.. every year it flowers and thousands of bee's cover it the sound is absolutely amazing, when i first herd it i thought it was an a electrical faulrt near by lol.

[LilacsLastBloomed]

they make it look so easy!

[pippipeone]

I am happy top have toads in my garden. Slugs are not usually big problem. I think they eat the slug.

[maggieleeflowers]

Beautiful video, thanks for sharing!

Check out some painted flowers on rocks that look so real they attract butterflies

go to Squidoo.com and type Painting Rocks in the search box.

[GardenToolCaddy]

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

[ekundayowt]

you could use beer at night to attract the slugs.

[picatsoforfma]

@xXSauronXx2992 You might have had a lot of salt on your skin and butterflies need salt too.

[xXSauronXx2992]

@TheBrassHole maybe you should calm down o.0