Entice a bevy of butterflies to your garden

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Entice a bevy of butterflies to your garden

0627MONARCH-BUTTERFLY-CUTOUT — To attrach monarch butterflies to your garden, gardening expert Wanda Cannon advises p lanting milkweed.

Wanda Cannon

Updated: Jun 27, 2014, 5:00 AM

Published: Jun 27, 2014, 12:13 AM

Nothing brings a summer garden to life the way butterflies do. It is easy to attract butterflies to your garden since they require larval host plants and flowering nectar plants to lay their eggs. Caterpillars also need to feed those plants to turn into butterflies.

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