Love butterflies? Make a difference this weekend. Purchase “butterfly plants” for your garden

Butterflies.

They are beautiful and wonderful, but they desperately need special plants – let’s call them “butterfly plants” to survive.

Here is a good article on why these plants are so important.

You can make a difference this weekend by attending and purchasing special butterfly plants at the annual Birmingham Botanical Garden’s Fall Sale October 22-23.

Here is the “butterfly plant” shopping list from the BBG:

1) a sun and shade Maypop or Passionvine
2) 3 varieties of Milkweeds
3) Cardinal Flower
4) 7 varieties of Asters

We may have missed a few items, so don’t forget to ask the folks at the Fall Plant Sale about additional native trees or plants that can be host plants for butterflies.