Gardening for butterflies


Butterfly attracting plants

You can attract more species of butterflies and moths to your garden by growing not only the nectar plants for the adults but also the food plants for the caterpillars; each species has it's own larval food plant. Follow this link for more information on this: Butterfly Plants

Plants available

		For a list of butterfly and moth plants we can supply click here:- plantlist . We also help to plan and plant Butterfly Gardens at public places or schools. Profits go to the North Wales Branch of Butterfly Conservation, to help us to save local wild butterflies and moths.   NEW! now buy many of these plants direct at; www.7wells.co.uk For a list of seeds currently available go to; Seedlist For full botanical name list of plants available click here; Botanical
Potted butterfly plants available

Larval Food Plants

Food for the caterpillars is just as important as food for the adults if we are to help butterflies breed in our gardens. We have to be able to ignore a few munched leaves for this, but wouldn't you rather see the butterflies? We can supply some of the native foodplants for caterpillars; click here; plantlist.

Local Butterfly Gardens,

planted by Jan Miller of North Wales Branch;

click here for   Tan y Coed, Old Colwyn, pictures and plant list.

click here for Wynn Gardens, Old Colwyn, pictures and plant list

click here for St John's Churchyard, Old Colwyn, pictures and plants

click here for Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwernaffield, pictures 

 

North Wales Butterflies favourite flowers

To help you choose which flowers to grow in your garden, a full list of both the larval foodplants and adult butterflies' favourite nectar flowers of all the 34 North Wales species can be seen by clicking here:- Foodplants
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