{"id":649,"date":"2010-08-23T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/08\/easy-care-plants-for-a-simple-butterfly-garden.html"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:58:37","slug":"easy-care-plants-for-a-simple-butterfly-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/08\/easy-care-plants-for-a-simple-butterfly-garden.html","title":{"rendered":"Easy Care Plants for a Simple Butterfly Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>I wrote the following article today, and it&#8217;s one in which I truly recommend plants I love &#8211; in fact, each one grows in my own butterfly garden. There were two I did not mention in the article because a) the colors didn&#8217;t go with the others and b) their growth habit makes them look kind of weedy, which when coupled with the Buddleias that take over the bed, may not be everyone&#8217;s cup of tea.\u00a0 I also have Geum and Cardinal Flower in my butterfly garden. I enjoy both, but for attracting butterflies, really nothing beats Buddleia<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=sevenoaks06-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002LNUG7Q\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.\u00a0 Clouds of them rise up from the bushes every day and perch among the pine trees here. 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