Butterfly Garden
The Butterfly Garden at the Lee County Extension Office was created in 2000 by Lee County Master Gardeners to beautify the grounds of the Extension Office and to educate the public about butterfly gardening. In the shade of surrounding trees, the garden features a board with information about Mississippi butterflies and a mailbox with a take-home butterfly publication prepared by MSU experts. Plant markers help identify the plants.
A Butterfly Garden needs both nectar plants for the adult butterfly to feed on and host plants for caterpillars. Butterflies will only lay their eggs on the host plant that each variety's caterpillars will eat.
Throughout the growing season, you’ll see adult butterflies in the Butterfly Garden and also the caterpillars munching away on plants such as fennel tucked here and there for black swallowtail caterpillars and passion flower vines growing on the arbor for the orange and black caterpillars.
We welcome you to come by anytime to enjoy the garden and its lively and colorful inhabitants!
Project Chair: Debbie Huffman
A Butterfly Garden needs both nectar plants for the adult butterfly to feed on and host plants for caterpillars. Butterflies will only lay their eggs on the host plant that each variety's caterpillars will eat.
Throughout the growing season, you’ll see adult butterflies in the Butterfly Garden and also the caterpillars munching away on plants such as fennel tucked here and there for black swallowtail caterpillars and passion flower vines growing on the arbor for the orange and black caterpillars.
We welcome you to come by anytime to enjoy the garden and its lively and colorful inhabitants!
Project Chair: Debbie Huffman
