How to Create a Butterfly Garden: Bringing the Beauty of Butterflies into Your World

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Author Mathew Tekulsky wrote the first book onbutterfly gardening for North America, nearly 40 years ago!

Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the relaxing and rewarding qualities of this outdoor hobby, its not hard to see why its sweeping the nation and growing in popularity.

How to Create a Butterfly Garden is a complete, step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. Youll learn about:

• The butterfly life cycle, habitats, and behaviors
• Choosing and obtaining food and nectar sources
• Designing your garden
• Options for country, suburban, and city gardens
• Fifty common garden butterflies and the plants they like
• Butterfly observation and conservation

This guide will teach you everything you need to get startedwhether youre a suburban resident, the owner of a small urban garden, an apartment dweller, or a keeper of a country estate, you can enjoy frequent butterfly visits to your garden or window box. The key, Tekulsky believes, is learning some basic knowledge of butterfly characteristics and behavior and knowing how to meet the needs of the butterfly species most common in your neighborhood.

Not only is butterfly gardening one of the easiest ways to enjoy these enchanting creatures, but its also a wonderful way to help conserve natural butterfly populations for generations to come. Learn how to create your own beautiful butterfly garden today!

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"A comprehensive book such as this on butterfly gardening is overdue."
Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist

Author Bio

Mathew Tekulskyis the author ofBackyard Bird Photography,The Art of Hummingbird Gardening, andGalapagos Birds, among other books. His bird photographs have been displayed in galleries and museums, including the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History.