Tag: Butterfly Gardening

Senna ligustrina: a Native and Host plant for Sulphur Butterflies

by Tia Saracino
April 14, 2026

Senna ligustrina, or privet senna, is an easy to grow Florida native plant. It is a nectar plant for pollinators and a larval host plant for species of sulphur butterflies. This is a perennial that lives for several years and produces beautiful ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Butterfly, Butterfly Gardening, Florida Native, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Hillsborough County, Home Landscapes, Larval Host Plant, Privet Senna, Senna Ligustrina, Sulphur Butterfly, Tampa, Tsilvasy

Improve Butterfly Habitat with Trees

by Beth Bolles
November 24, 2025

Many gardeners enjoy plants that attract butterflies and there is no shortage of beautiful flowering plants to supply nectar for all our pollinators. One critical part of making habitat for butterflies that we may need to improve upon is supplying ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Butterfly Habitat, Native Trees, Trees

Our Passionate State Butterfly

by Donna Corbelli Castro
June 26, 2025

It's a butterfly world! Sometimes, my garden is literally bursting with butterflies. If you feel this way too, then you may have planted many butterfly host plants. A butterfly host plant is one which they lay their eggs on. You must ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension, , Wildlife
Tags: Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Maypop, Newsletter, Newsletter2, Passiflora Incense, Passiflora Suberosa, Passion Vines, Pupal Mating, Zebra Longwing

Transform Your Yard Into a Wildlife Haven

by Yvonne Florian
March 20, 2025

by Yvonne Florian, Edited by Andrea Lazzari What does it take to turn your landscape into a “Wildlife Haven” and why would you want to? Observing wildlife can foster a sense of well-being and increase your quality of life and knowledge ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Wildlife
Tags: Bird Watching, Butterfly Gardening, Feeding Wildlife, Florida Friendly Landscape, Home Landscape, Native Plants For Wildlife, Native Shrubs With Berries, Wildlife Photography

Milkweed is for More Than Monarchs

by Stephanie Means
July 19, 2024

Milkweed: we all know it as the poster plant for pollinator gardens, but did you know it feeds many other insects beyond the beloved monarch butterfly? (more…) READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Butterfly Garden, Butterfly Gardening, Conservation, Duval, Extension, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Milkweed, Monarchs

Attracting Florida Butterflies

by Jamie Daugherty, Ph.D.
February 13, 2024

Arguably the most popular insect in our landscape, Butterflies are beloved by all. Now everyone can easily start a Butterfly Garden to attract and raise butterflies … guaranteed! Here are two easy steps on How to Attract Butterflies and ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Attract Wildlife, Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening

2024 – New year’s gardening resolutions – don’t go dormant – spring into gardening!

by Ralph Mitchell
January 1, 2024

The New Year is a great time to make some horticultural resolutions that will benefit any landscape. Let's look at some tips, suggestions and strategies that will make your landscaping experience in Southwest Florida the best in 2024 – we ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Annual Flowering Plants, Butterfly Gardening, Florida-Friendly Landscaping

Tropical Milkweed in North Florida

by joshuacriss
July 1, 2022

The Issue Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) has been in the news recently. It can be a host plant for Ophryocystis elektroscirra (OE), a parasite of monarch butterflies (Danus plexippus). Boiled down, milkweed is a host plant ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Milkweed, Monarch, Tropical Milkweed

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