Butterfly Gardener
Butterfly Gardener features content spotlighting various aspects of establishing and maintaining a butterfly garden. Published quarterly, the magazine is a benefit of membership. Editor Mary Anne Borge can be reached at [email protected].
Just announced!
NABA’s Inaugural Lana Edwards Butterfly Garden of the Year Contest.
From balcony containers to public gardens, submissions are open to all shapes and sizes.
Latest Edition of Butterfly Gardener
Spring 2024
Gardening Vicariously in Sarasota County, Florida by Scott D. Anderson
Wanted: Red Admiral by Jan Dixson
Spring Gardens: Who Needs to Clean Up? by Garry Annibal
Witnessing Metamorphosis: The Magic of Nature by Selvi Viswanathan
Book Reviews: Tiny + Wild: Build a Small-Scale Meadow Anywhere and The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants by Mary Anne Borge
Winter 2023
How Monarchs Changed our Minds and our Landscape by Janet Smith Moore
Wanted: Viceroy by Steve and Mary Jane Krotzer
Invasive Species Threaten Butterflies – and Everything Else! by Michael Van Clef
Lana Edwards Butterfly Garden of the Year Contest
Western Whites Arrive in the Upper Midwest! by Allison Snopek Barta
Fall 2023
Gardening in Deer Territory by Jean Barrell
Grasslands for Butterflies by Jodi Morgan
Juniper Hairstreak by Steve and Mary Jane Krotzer
Book Reviews
Prairie Up — An Introduction to Natural Garden Design by Mary Anne Borge
What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees by Mary Anne Borge
Summer 2023
Bountiful Beebalm
by Karen Sferra
Summer Time Blues
by Jim and Lynne Weber
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Monarch
by Lenora Larson
Book Review
A Northern Gardner’s Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators
by Mary Anne Borge
Spring 2023
Rain Gardens Slow the Flow
by Jodi Sulpizio
Calderon Pinelands Butterfly Habitat Restoration Project
by Mary Anne Borge
The Comeback Kid
by Staci-lee Sherwood
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Falcate Orangetip
by Mary Jane and Steve Krotzer
Book Review
Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and Other Sensory Wonders of Nature
by Casey Laine
Winter 2022
A Case for Chaos: Rewilding My Garden
by Lauren Kovacs
Lessons from an Evolving Southwest Florida Butterfly Garden
by Jeanette Atkinson
Wasps in Your Garden: A Good Thing?
by Mary Anne Borge
Defending Your Garden Borders: Eight Tips for Working with HOAs and Weed Inspectors
by Nancy Lawson
Fall 2022
Life After Lawn: Habitat Gardening in California
by Kristen Nelson
“Drug Stores” for Monarchs
by Nancy Lawson
An Interview with Priscilla Brodkin
by Mary Anne Borge
Adventures of a Beginning Butterfly Gardener
by Lauren Moeller
Book Review
The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening
by Casey Laine
Summer 2022
Gardening for Climate Change
by Alexis Doshas
Weeds of Wildflowers? Native “Weeds” that Sustain Butterflies
by Andee Naccarato
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: American Lady
by Karen Sferra
Book Review
Native Host Plants for Texas Moths: A Field Guide
by Casey Laine
Spring 2022
Welcoming Spring Butterflies to Your Garden
by Deb Ellis
Book Review
Native Meadowscaping: Designing, Installing, and Maintaining Native Meadows
by Casey Laine
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Zebra Swallowtail
by Lenora Lawson
More About Pawpaw
by Lenora Lawson
Mustards for Butterflies- So Many Varieties!
by Mary Anne Borge
Winter 2021
A Butterfly Garden Grows in Brooklyn – Four Stories Up!
by Noah Ratzan
Don’t Forget to Water Your Butterflies: Providing a Water Source
by Sue Chalmers
Mysterious Moths
by Jim and Lynn Weber
Stealthy Red Admirals!
by Jan Dixon
Book Review
Weeding Without Chemicals
by Mary Anne Borge
Fall 2021
Diversify Your Lawn
by Anna Fialkoff
Book Review
Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape
by Casey Laine
How to Do It in the Desert! Butterfly Gardening in the Dry Southwest
by Jack Dash
Fall Garden Clean-up? Less is More!
by Mary Anne Borge
Evolution of a Meadow
by Samantha Bean
Summer 2021
Soil, Soil, Soil!
Gary Noel Ross
Native Plants, Soil, and Soil Amendments
Kathleen V. Salisbury
Soil–It’s more than just dirt!
Mary Anne Borge
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Baltimore Checkerspot
Casey Laine
Coppicing: A Tree Management Strategy for Small Gardens
Lenora Larson
Spring 2021
Challenge 2020: Do One Extra Thing to Support Florida’s Butterflies
Karen Rosenbeck, Nancy and Jim White, Delia Smith
Butterfly Gardening Basics: What to Serve
Mary Anne Borge
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Painted Lady
Lenora Larson
Spring Cleaning in a Butterfly Garden
Joanne Mullowney
Book Review
Texas Butterflies: A Field Guide
Casey Laine
Winter 2020
It’s Winter! The Best Time to Start Growing Native Plants from Seed
Randi V. Wilfert Eckel
Snoutbreak!
Jim and Lynne Weber
Hunting and Hosting Northern Minnesota Butterflies
Allison Snopek Barta
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillars
Lenora Larson
Life Begins in a Garden
Debra Straub
Fall 2020
Goldenrods–For Nectar, Not Allergies!
Text and photos by Mary Anne Borge
Butterfly Garden Journal: Raising a Variegated Fritillary
Text by Casey Laine
A Red Admiral in the Garden
Text by Julie O’Donald
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Gray Hairstreak Caterpillars
Text by Casey Laine
Summer 2020
Butterfly Garden News: Then and Now
Text by Sal Levinson
Making the Most of my Love of Butterflies
Text by Duncan Juman
Wild Bergamot – Perfect for Butterflies!
Photos and Text by Mary Anne Borge
Butterfly Views From New Mexico
Photos by Steven Cary
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Variegated Fritillary Caterpillars
Text by Casey Laine
Spring 2020
Native Nectar Plants for Migrating Monarchs at East Coast Sites
Photos and Text by Patricia Sutton
Poem
Photos and Text by Casey Laine
Book Review: Nebraska’s Forest Butterflies
by Photos and Text by Jo Langabee
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Question Mark Caterpillar
by Jane Hurwitz
Winter 2019
Butterfly Musings: Comments
“Planting” the Love of Butterflies
Photos and Text by Jill Gorman
Caterpillar Hunting: An Interview with David Moskowitz
Text by Jane Hurwitz, Photos by David Moskowitz
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar
Photos and Text by Mary Anne Borge
Fall 2019
Zinnas for Butterflies–and the Kitchen Table
Photos and Text by Gary Noel Ross, Ph.D.
Sowing the Seeds of the Future
Photos and Text by Ellen Federico
Butterfly Garden Journal: Common and Uncommon Butterflies in the North Woods
Photos and Text by Allison Snopek Barta
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar
Photos and Text by Jan Dixon
Summer 2019
Seeds2Share from Bound by Beauty
by Mary Benton
Butterfly Paradise in Florida
by Jeffrey, Judah, Mason, and Remy Glusman
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Great Spangled Fritillary Caterpillar
by Lenora Larson
Book Review
Native Plants of the Midwest
by Mary Anne Borge
Spring 2019
From Butterflies on My Balcony
by Peter Waldeck
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Common Buckeye Caterpillar
by Jane Hurwitz
Extending the Milkweed Banquet
by Lenora Larson
Book Review
The Puddle Garden
by Mary Anne Borge
Winter 2018
From Septic Field to Butterfly Garden: An Interview with Joyce Koch
by Mary Anne Borge
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Goatweed Leafwing Caterpillar
by Lenora Larson
Distinctly Different Milkweed
by Lynne and Jim Weber
Fall 2018
Raising Caterpillars: A Photo Essay
by Jennifer Lamkin
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar
by Jan Dixon
Build It and They Will Come
by Allison Snopek Barta
Summer 2018
Nervous About Planting Your First Butterfly Garden? Six Things You Should Know
by Laura Darnell
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Silver-spotted Skipper Caterpillar
by Lenora Larson
Managing Milkweed
by Ken Carman
Winter 2017/Spring 2018
Keeping Butterflies in Our Communities
by Julie O’Donald
Ghosts in the Graveyard
by Lynne and Jim Weber
Mountainmints are Pollinator Magnets
by Mary Anne Borge
Butterfly Gardening in Connecticut
by Pamm Cooper
Journey from “Green Desert” to Nature Sanctuary
by Joe Falconi
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Giant Swallowtail Caterpillars
by Jan Dixon
Summer/Fall 2017
Capturing Caterpillar Moments
by Jill Gorman
The Humane Gardener: An Interview with Nancy Lawson
by Mary Anne Borge
A Thistle Epistle
by Lynne and Jim Weber
Florida Habitat Gardening in Zone 9a
by Bill Berthet
Bountiful Blue Wood Aster
by Mary Anne Borge
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Black Swallowtail Caterpillars
by Mary Anne Borge
Book Review
by Jane Hurwitz
Summer/Fall 2017
Capturing Caterpillar Moments
by Jill Gorman
The Humane Gardener: An Interview with Nancy Lawson
by Mary Anne Borge
A Thistle Epistle
by Lynne and Jim Weber
Florida Habitat Gardening in Zone 9a
by Bill Berthet
Bountiful Blue Wood Aster
by Mary Anne Borge
Wanted Alive in Your Garden: Black Swallowtail Caterpillars
by Mary Anne Borge
Book Review
by Jane Hurwitz
Spring 2017
Butterfly Musings
by Allison Snopek Barta
Kids Count Butterflies!
by Jane Smith
A Suburban Butterfly Oasis
by Jill Gorman and Meredith Mays
White-veined Pipevines: Another Choice
by Lenora Larson
Winter 2016
Butterfly Musings:
Soldier or Queen: Show Me the Difference, Please!
by Linda F. Cooper
Butterfly Musings:
Knowing Your Blues: Ceraunus, Marine, and Reakirt’s
by Steve Cary
Chapter News: In Search of Baltimore Checkerspot
by Meredith Mays
Louisiana Premieres “Pollination Celebration”
by Gary Noel Ross