Butterfly Host Plants Virginia. Held the first butterfly garden tour (in virginia beach) in 1993, and a butterfly family festival in 1994, each with a plant sale. Host plants are the nurseries of the garden.
For example, the female monarch butterfly sips nectar from many kinds of flowering plants, but will only lay her eggs on milkweed plants, while the eastern tiger. An ideal butterfly host plant for this region is the gooseberry, an edible fruit popular in europe that's now making its debut in the u.s. This will help you decide which butterfly nectar plants and butterfly host plants you will want to plant when you create your butterfly garden.
Held the first butterfly garden tour (in virginia beach) in 1993, and a butterfly family festival in 1994, each with a plant sale.
No single host plant will work for all butterflies. Eggs, caterpillars, chrysalis and adult butterflies. Adapted from linda mcbride, virginia master gardener, virginia master naturalist and a true butterfly steward. Examples are milkweed species (for the caterpillars of monarch butterflies) and violets (fritillary butterflies).