Butterfly Garden Kit

The butterfly garden kit contains a mix of 32, plug-sized, native Michigan perennial plants chosen to provide nectar and/ or host plants for local butterflies. Each plant comes labelled with the first 3 letters of the genus and species name. In your garden, space the plants about 2 feet apart, take them out of their tubes, plant and water them. At this spacing, kit will fill an area about 100 sqft.

The species included in the kit vary. A typical kit includes 11 different species for a site with full sun to partial shade and average soil. Kits can be customized by request to accommodate a variety of sites from sun to light shade. For more information on our local butterflies and the plants they use, check out our table of butterfly host & nectar plants. Plants are typically chosen from the following list:

Monarch butterfly feeding on Common Milkweed flowers (Asclepias syriaca) Giant Swallowtail stopping to feed on Beebalm (Monarda fistulosa) a butterfly nectaring on Wild Bergamot (Beebalm - Monarda fistulosa) Monarch caterpillar feeding on Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) Swallowtails visit flowering Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) small butterfly on an False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) Monarch crysalis a Tiger Swallowtail visits the Beebalm for a meal A butterfly garden kit one year after planting a butterfly garden with a mix of native and non-native flowers