A good ‘filler’ plant, Anaphalis margaritacea is easily one of the best plants for a butterfly garden. It makes compact mounds of silvery foliage topped by clusters of white, yellow-centred ...

No butterfly garden would be complete without it. Lots of different varieties of this long-popular plant are available these days, but the Butterfly series of pentas is among the very best.

In the past, most butterfly bush cultivars tended to be vigorous, large-growing shrubby plants, easily reaching 8 feet. Cutting them back hard in the each spring would help control their size.

Making a butterfly- worthy garden is not as difficult as you might think, however. Provide the right conditions and plants, and you’ll soon realize your goal.

There are about 750 butterfly species in the United States, according to the Smithsonian Institution, with the cabbage white perhaps the most common. Butterfly sightings in gardens are becoming ...