r/ButterflyGardening

First good view of a Swallowtail Butterfly this season. Love these amazing beauties.

Swallowtail Butterfly

Hello

I recently bought a house and i really want butterflies in my garden

But would love to know how i would go about it.

Would love for it to be low maintain, and have no poisonous plants (due to kids).

I live in denmark

I currently have around 4 meters times 0.5 meter

My plan were to get Some

butterfly Bush

Catmint

Purple Coneflower

Tall Verbena / Purpletop Verbena

Verbena bonariensis

Lavender

Yerrow

Thyme

Merian

Oregano / Wild Marjoram

Merian

Stinging Nettle

And add some flower mix to it

This is from chat GPT but would love some inputs :)

Hello, i just planted some milkweed seeds (swamp milkweed and swan plant). I live in Australia and it’s going into Winter soon, though our winters here are nothing lol. I wanted to plant them now so they get a natural cold strat and hopefully sprout in the spring. Daytime temps are 21°-26°C and 9°-15° at night on average. What can I expect to happen with my seeds over this time and what are ways to boost germination rate? They’re growing in seedling trays with special seedling potting mix. They have good drainage and a makeshift humidity dome. Are these conditions okay, is there anything else i can do to boost germination rate? Very new to seeds, and have had great success growing cassia brewsterri and snapdragons in the summer/autumn but have never grown anything from scratch in colder months.

I’ve also got oleander, native mulberry and caper seeds planted yesterday.