A butterfly garden supplies food and shelter for all stages of a butterfly’s life. Providing caterpillar food plants, butterfly nectar plants and about half a day’s worth of sun are the basic elements of a butterfly garden.
When you certify your butterfly garden with NABA’s Butterfly Garden Certification Program you demonstrate your commitment to promoting habitat for butterflies as well as other pollinators.
Planning and taking care of a garden is a lot of work! Don’t even get started talking about weeding, mulching, and watering, it can be such a big job. So why would a person want to take the time out of an already busy garden life to fill in a form and certify their butterfly…
Actually butterflies probably do not care if you certify your butterfly garden with NABA. But if you care about increasing the amount of gardens that protect and promote butterflies, displaying a NABA certified butterfly garden sign in your garden helps to let others know that butterflies need our help. Your sign is a conversation starter…
The map (above) shows just some of the gardens that have changed their gardening choices so that butterflies can grow and increase in numbers. Over the coming months, information about the specific gardens will be added. Want to join the map? Certify your garden with NABA!
Butterfly Feeders are not necessary for butterflies but they are necessary for some butterfly gardeners! Putting a butterfly feeder in your garden brings the butterflies down to viewing level, letting you know which butterflies are visiting your garden without chasing around to find them. The best place to put your feeder is near a spot…
Did you know that most of the gardeners who have certified their butterfly gardens with NABA include milkweed in their list of plants? In response to the overwhelming popularity of gardening for Monarchs, NABA has added a second outdoor, waterproof sign to its butterfly garden certification program! Certified butterfly gardeners who wish to display this…
