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Attract Butterflies To Your Garden
By Planting This Beautiful Flower
By KENNA O'ROURKE
According to the National Wildlife Foundation, good butterfly gardens that encourage pollination should have clustered and flat-topped flowers that can withstand a full sun.
Oenothera lindheimeri, colloquially known as gaura, fits these specifications in several ways. First, it has a long blooming window, flowering from June through the first frost.
This allows butterflies to feed on gauras for a fairly long window of time. Additionally, their flowers grow in clustered spikes with four flat petals per bloom.
Pink and red are among the colors known to draw butterflies’ attention, and gaura blooms such as Siskiyou Pink and Gaudi Red will fill your garden
with butterflies.
The tall stems of gaura can be planted along walkways and garden borders, as the dense clusters of leaves at the base of these plants will make for defined edges or borders.