December 12th is the last day to ship orders via USPS to guarantee delivery by Christmas!
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, it’s not hard to see why it's sweeping the nation and growing in popularity.
How to Create a Butterfly Garden is a complete, step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. You’ll learn about:
This guide will teach you everything you need to get started—whether you’re 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 it’s also a wonderful way to help conserve natural butterfly populations for generations to come. Learn how to create your own beautiful butterfly garden today!
Mother Earth News Collector Series: Organic Gardening, 4th Edition walks gardeners through three different categories of keeping a garden including: Techniques & Methods, DIY Plans, and unique planting tips for each of the four seasons (spring, summer, fall, and winter), to help you grow your best garden yet.
Inside these 144 pages, you'll learn how to manipulate your microclimate, have a successful garden in changing climates, the secret to healthy soil, build an A-Frame tomato trellis, and so much more!
Other articles include: