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BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
Plant nectar-rich plants and you will never be without butterflies! In fact, plant a cottage garden, including herbs and wildflowers, and they'll love you for it! Plant as many as possible in sunny areas and include a Buddleia bush or two. Provide food plants also for butterfly and moth caterpillars - such as Birds Foot Trefoil for the blue butterfly species. A nettle patch will feed the caterpillars of the Small Tortoiseshell and Peacock butterflies. Cut back half the patch in mid-summer to provide new shoots for the mid-summer brood of caterpillars. Avoid the use of pesticides.
Butterfly plants available now
Angelica, Apple Mint, Catmint, Cowslip, Foxglove, Harebell, Hemp Agrimony, Hollyhock, Hyssop, Lady's Smock, Lavender, Michaelmas Daisy, Pleurisy Root, Primrose, Purple Loosestrife, Purple-topped vervain, Red Campion, Red Valerian, Rock Rose, Rosemary, Salsify, Self-heal, Soapwort, Sweet Rocket, Vervain, Viper's bugloss, Weld, Wild Basil, Wild Mignonette, Wild Strawberry, Yarrow
Moth plants available now
Centaury, Cowslip, Evening Primrose, Foxglove, Golden Rod, Harebell, Hedge Woundwort, Herb Bennet, Herb Robert, Lemon Balm, Maiden Pink, Primrose, Purple Loosestrife, Red Campion, Red Valerian, Rock Rose, Sea Kale, Sweet Rocket, Toadflax, Viper's Bugloss, White Campion, Wild Basil, Wild Clematis, Yarrow
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