Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants: How to Attract and Identify Butterflies

Christopher Kline

Apr 2015 · Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

About this ebook

• Fun how-to guide for attracting butterflies with native plants
• Includes more than 150 color photographs
• Suitable for kids and adults

Have you ever wanted to draw butterflies to your home, but you haven’t known where to start? This book will help you! Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants is much more than a book filled with beautiful photographs. It brings the butterfly’s perspective to the reader. Living in nature is getting more and more difficult around the planet for butterflies. This makes manmade habitats, filled with native plants, much more important.

Butterfly expert Christopher Kline explains how to use native plants and draw butterflies to your home landscape. He discusses butterfly gardening basics, common butterflies int he garden, garden designs, guide to host plants, native nectar, and sources for native plants. Many detailed illustrations on garden layout will make building your own garden much easier. This guide also makes it easy to pick plants that attract different butterfly species. Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who wants to draw butterflies to their home.

About the author

Christopher Kline has studied butterflies throughout the United States since 1997. He is the founder of the Southwest Monarch Study and is a co-founder of the Central Arizona Butterfly Association. He has tagged literally thousands of monarchs in his career, and his current life list includes over 300 species of butterflies. Kline is currently the Butterfly Specialist at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches about the science and enjoyment of butterfly gardening. He resides in Sugar Grove, Ohio.