Colorful garden flowers are beautiful and enhance the enjoyment of your home. Make sure to trim away wilted or dead flowers that make the garden look unkempt. If everyone keeps their garden in tip top shape, entire neighborhoods will become places that delight the eye.
Plant Colorful Garden Flowers and Trees
Enhance the enjoyment of your front and backyard by planting colorful flowers and trees. Not only are the colorful plants beautiful, but they encourage bees, butterflies and birds to visit your garden.
Milkweed
Make your garden a special place with butterfly attracting Milkweed plants. Milkweed, a perennial with elongated green leaves and orange, yellow and red flowers, is the required host plant for monarch butterfly caterpillars. It reproduces easily with wind carried seeds that sprout everywhere. Milkweed plays a critical role in the monarch’s life cycle and by having these plants in the garden, one is sure to receive many charming butterfly visitors.
Common Garden Butterfly Types
If you see these chrysalises in your garden, leave them alone, they are going to become butterflies.
Plants That Attract Bees
Plants That Attract Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are the stars of any backyard. With their dazzling colors and their high speed zigging and zagging from flower to flower, they’re the prettiest little visitors you can have. Luckily, there are many plants that encourage them to visit your garden. Plant a mix of these, so there’s always fresh nectar for these speedy little guys all year long.
Wildlife Attracting Flowers
If you want to create a nature garden with colorful animal visitors, plant these flowers.
Mouse Preventing Plants
Mice hate the smell of lavender, rosemary and peppermint plants and avoid areas where they grow.
Deadheading Flowers
Cut dead flowers off these plants to keep your garden looking fresh and beautiful all year long.
Plants that Attract Butterflies
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