Dundee Fact Sheets

Butterfly Garden Design

Butterfly

This garden design incorporates a variety of annual and perennial plants attractive to butterflies. It’s perfect for a sunny area of your yard. You can design to your tastes as well as those of the butterflies by selecting plants from the lists below.

Also reference the Dundee Fact Sheet “Installing a Planting Bed”.

Butterfly Garden Design Diagram
"A"                                                                  "B"
Plant these areas with annuals such as:          Choose one variety:
Zinnias         Border Dahlias                               Centaurea montana (Mt. Bluet)
Alyssum        Ageratum                                      Echinops (Globe Thistle)
Lantana        Petunias                                        Eryngium (Sea Holly)
Dianthus       Heliotrope
Marigolds

"C"                                                                  "D"
Choose one variety:                                         Choose one variety:
Hemerocallis (Daylily)                                         Eupatorium (Joe-Pye Weed)
Sedum spectabilis variety                                   Helenium (Sneezeweed)
Solidago (Goldenrod)

"E"                                                                 "F"
Choose one variety:                                       Choose one variety:
Allium                                                              Arabis (Rock Cress)
Phlox arendsii variety                                       Dianthus deltoides variety
Phlox divaricata variety                                    Doronicum (Leopard's Bane)
Sedum - mid-sized variety                                Gaillardia 'Arizona Sun'
                                                                       Iberis (Candytuft)

 

"G"                                                                 "H"
Choose one variety:                                          Tall Delphinium variety
Echinacea (Coneflower)
Monarda (Bee Balm)                                         "I"
Rudbeckia                                                       Choose one variety:
                                                                       Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed)
                                                                       Campanula glomerata
                                                                       Coreopsis

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