The beds are big enough. Is this park located in the country where there are trees and weeds all around? If it is, then it's quite likely you'll get butterflies.
MissSherry

I have a good friend who lives by a major freeway in a moble home park. Not to many trees, but a few. It is a large moble home park. She keeps her little beds filled with milkweed, and often has more eggs than I do living out in the country with lots of fields and lots of milkweed.
Her only problem is--she get those little notes from the park's management telling her she needs to WEED her flower beds-
Connie

we live on the edge of town. there are trees, weeds and a corn feild. we even have blackberries growing wild down the road. so I guess I am going to give this a try. Is it to late in the year to start?

so is it to late?

Um, well it might be. If you plant perennials, the likely wont bloom for you this year but will come back next (hopefully). If you can get your hands on some big box store zinnias and such, you can have instant attraction to your yard. Zinnias are indispensable in any butterfly garden anyways. Also try Mexican sunflowers if you can find them. Annuals are workhorses, but perennials often are the backbone of a good butterfly garden and they take some time to establish. It was 106 out yesterday for me so I donÂt have great success planting out this time of year, but I usually get decent establishment out of most things.

If you lived down here, I'd recommend that you wait until cooler weather to start your butterfly garden - since you're way up in Zone4, it might be alright. I'll let northern gardeners help you on this.
MissSherry

Some of the zone 4 and 5 gardens are experiencing a really tough heat wave this year. I've noticed on the news that the temps have been 100+ degrees in many places that are usually not as hot as we are.

Planting in the dead of summer, in the heat, is not a good idea, unless you put out some annuals in pots or something like that for now. It stresses the plants out too much and can be a cause for failure of plants to thrive.

If you could get some tropical milkweed (some places sell it over the Internet by mail order) and pot them up, that would probably work for this year. Then, plant some perennials in the fall, and that should get you a good start for next year.

Susan