Flowers Bloom Butterfly 2780 X 2780. Butterfly bush flowering shrub brings an ornamental appearance to your landscape. While roses are a popular plant in a flowering garden. they don't tend to attract butterflies.
If you want to focus on attracting Monarch butterflies, try planting milkweed, zinnias, and miss molly bush. These especially help support migrating monarchs on their long journey to Mexico. There are hundreds of other great butterfly garden plants that you can see on our butterfly flowers page.
Monarch butterflies, and other butterflies feed on foliage.
The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly. ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun.
For hundreds of years, these delicate flowers have been used as a natural dye for edible dishes. Goldenrod is a great late-season nectar flower, and very easy to grow. The flowers of these plants are a food source for butterflies.