How to Plant a Butterfly Garden | This Old House

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shows how a garden can be made to attract butterflies. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for How to Plant a Butterfly Garden:
- assortment of flowering plants
Tools for How to Plant a Butterfly Garden:
- small spade
- garden trowel
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[@federalburrito]

I love buttah-fly gah-dens

[@scottrodolico5009]

As a guy from Boston, I just want to say that this video is really informative in a language i can understand!! :)

[@Axess-sv8nq]

Whaddya talkin' about? We tawlk nawwmal up heah!

[@draco4540]

@@Axess-sv8nq i don't understand what you're saying. i'm a yooper and i only talk yoopernese.

[@SPDRailfan]

Hi , I am Som from Calcutta , India. I am a butterfly lover and I am doing butterfly garden at my home since last 10 years. Now I am also doing the same in school , colleges or a friends place for spreading places for butterflies in the concrete city. I liked your video very much and the nectar garden is very very beautiful. I will be watching your all videos....

[@pinarellolimoncello]

Fantastic video, just makes me wonder why we didn't learn anything like this at school.

[@EpicWin2005]

Because schools only want you to comply and never question authority so you grow up to be a sheep.

[@Mrs.TJTaylor]

I did learn this in school!

[@invaderzim1265]

I learned the basics of butterfly but all I remember is comply and never question authority.

[@uditb.3993]

School teaches you garbage. Gold standard education come from observing your environment and real life experience.

[@danielpettus1476]

@@EpicWin2005 False, I'm showing this to my high school class today in preparation for having my students design and construct a pollinator garden on campus.

[@ZE308AC]

Everybody should grow milkweed to help the monarch butterflies

[@kinglyzard]

As long as you keep it down to native Milkweed species. Tropical Milkweed, though pretty, is a big no-no.

[@nickimillennium]

Common milkweed smells incredible

[@millieatr]

Does a Bahston accent also attract butterflies ??

[@xibipiio991]

that was a really excellent video! I never knew a puddle/mud/stone area next to the flowers was beneficial to the butterflies. I've been interested in butterfly gardens for like 5 years, thankyou for that!!!

[@SPDRailfan]

Josh Teasdale yes, they need. Specially males. They get minarels to increase the chance of getting mating partner. The male who has more mineral stored in the body , will be fittest for mating. They transfer minarels to female/ egg through mating .But it is very small spot given here. Atleast 20-50sq ft . I have a buttefly garden at my home since 2005.

[@MonikaLaleczka]

great video!!!! i planted my 1st butterfly garden last year..and ended up also getting bees,humingbirds, and dragonflies...great tips on this video...

[@SPDRailfan]

MonikaLaleczka great job !!!!! I am from India and started my home butterfly garden 12 years back. Go Green . Happy butterflying.

[@invaderzim1265]

What attracts dragonflies?

[@jeannedurocher5577]

@@invaderzim1265 Not being smart, but mosquitos! So if you have a little pond they will happily munch on the mosquitos that hang out there

[@invaderzim1265]

@@jeannedurocher5577 *MOSQUITOES?!* NO THANKS 😨 😒

[@lepidlover0557]

@@invaderzim1265 Just get some long and THIN poles or sticks and stick them in the ground, pointing straight up towards the sky. The dragonflies will perch there and eat any flies, gnats, mosquitoes, and any other flying pest that goes past them. Make sure to have space between each stick. I'd say at least 2 or 3 feet Also, make sure they're sturdy and not wobbly so that the dragonflies can perch easier

[@MichaelJosephJr934]

Miss this guy!

[@ginafriend1690]

Late planting in season for me, but it's true, the butterflies come just like that!! I love it! 🦋

[@sarahknight6627]

That guy's accent tho... "Look at the cawla!" (color) lulz But on a serious note, this is very informative and something that I really want to do in the future. :)

[@hotcocoa500]

Sarah Knight his accent sounds voice is like a New York accent mixed British

[@Treegrower]

So much great info in this video!

[@ishaan5183]

The cabbage white you were talking about is actually a female clouded sulphur!

[@kinglyzard]

Butterfly feeders, basically rotting fruit on a pedestal, brings in a whole new cross section of butterflies that don't come to flowers often. Red Spotted Purples, Ruddy Daggerwings, Emperors and Malachite all will come to overripe apples, bananas and mangoes.

[@nickimillennium]

I tossed an overripe watermelon into my yard and it attracted a swallowtail

[@مبارياتلايفيوروكوبااميركا]

Very great garden

[@donnamarie4443]

I love love love butterflies🦋 Thanks for upload and info👍

[@butterflyplanet6626]

Love it.. great tips for a butterfly garden

[@cristinaesparza527]

That butterfly that she called a Cabbage White was actually a clouded Sulphur

[@johnmalerba804]

Buttafly Gahden!!!

[@michelleroxy21]

Gorgeous garden! 🖤🦋🖤

[@kinglyzard]

Gahden lol.

[@klcpca]

RIP Rodger.... Died: August 21, 2024 ---- I know you are in Heaven's Garden surrounded by the beautiful things you loved....

[@Morudae]

learned so much! thank you!

[@catalinasimmons6314]

I was thinking exactly that. I live in naples,fl. From Philadelphia,Pa.

[@ullgeologist]

Here is an informative video about butterfly gahhhdens! 🤣

[@sylvainbouchard9142]

1st to watch ... Nice ! Like this Chanel.

[@AR-cp5dz]

2:04 "... or pupa..."

[@ProfPoetry]

VERY helpful, thank you!

[@JasonJayJJ1]

If butterflies suck mud, I wonder if that's why I see wasps hanging around the wet mud around my sprinkler head today!

[@vistaprime]

that accent! Gahden

[@dhananjayanand8003]

Good work

[@darrencarney6771]

You need visit gardens in the UK.

[@SmoothChino]

The cheapest way to start a garden is from seed.

[@kestrelfishing3558]

3:12 I’m pretty sure that’s not a cabbage white, but rather a sulphur or some species.

[@rethablair6902]

New subscriber here😅

[@davidseifert9511]

Garden

[@staceygianoplos6381]

Can I get a list of the plants and flowers shown in this garden?

[@jenniferrogers7550]

Ok

[@krystynam4076]

Hi, I have a bat house on side of my house. Would butterflies thrive if I extend my flower garden and build some butterfly houses.

[@redwolftrash]

I'd say put them as far away from each other as possible; you never know how damaged a butterfly could be or how daring your bats could be.

[@mattmccallum2007]

Sadly Roger just passed away.

[@midnull6009]

Hard time understanding him. He has a really thick accent...

[@MiamiPush2theLimit]

Mid Null lol Boston accent I love it 🥰

[@mauhuff]

I love his thick Boston accent ❤️

[@kinglyzard]

Wow, here's a butterfly garden-brought to you by Orkin Pest Control Hmmmmm...