Stories from Houzz

Gardening for Butterflies 203 Stories
Earth Day
6 Steps to Creating Your Butterfly Garden
By Debbie Ballentine
Encourage these fanciful winged beauties to visit your garden while helping restore their fragmented habitat
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Fall Gardening
What Monarch Butterflies Taught Me About Garden Design
By Benjamin Vogt
Thinking like a butterfly leads to fresh perspectives in the garden and in life
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Gardening Guides
You Don't Need Prairie to Help Pollinators
By Benjamin Vogt
Woodlands, marshes, deserts — pollinators are everywhere
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Gardening Guides
3 Ways Native Plants Make Gardening So Much Better
By Benjamin Vogt
You probably know about the lower maintenance. But native plants' other benefits go far beyond a little less watering and weeding
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Gardening Guides
Butterfly Gardening: Delight the Eyes With Living Sculptures
By Benjamin Vogt
Surprise and thrill with a garden that attracts magical winged creatures, bringing color, movement and life
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Landscape Design
How 7 Landscape Designers Create Beautiful Gardens With Verbena
By Lauren Dunec Hoang
Verbena bonariensis works wonders as an airy screen, back-of-bed flower, window box plant and more
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Landscape Design
What to Know About Growing a Wildflower Garden From Seed
By Lauren Dunec Hoang
Bring nature’s magic home and welcome native wildlife by devoting part of your yard to wildflowers
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Gardening Guides
9 Ways to Use Lavender in Your Garden Design
By Lauren Dunec Hoang
Give your yard a hit of color, a waft of fragrance and the buzz of bees with this sun-loving, low-water perennial
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Inspiring Gardens
7 Pollinator-Friendly Gardens to Inspire Your Summer Borders
By Lauren Dunec Hoang
Welcome birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects with these favorite plants and smart design strategies
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Earth Day
Create a Container Wildlife Habitat for Hummingbirds and Butterflies
By Noelle Johnson
Don’t let limited space prevent you from welcoming wildlife into your garden
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Landscape Design
9 Fresh Design Ideas From Wildlife-Friendly Gardens
By Lauren Dunec Hoang
Set up your garden to provide food, water and shelter for birds, bees, butterflies and more without compromising style
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