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

Very informative. It can also be used as a field guide for many kinds of caterpillars, butterflies, and native plants. I have studied native gardening and gardening for butterflies for years and I still learned a lot from this book.

This book is useful if you live in the Midwest (especially Ohio where the author lives) because the butterfly and plant species described in the book are native to this area of the country. You already have to know the basics of gardening before you can use the information in this book. The book covers why people should have a butterfly garden with native plants, several garden designs (general butterfly garden, caterpillar garden, and monarch garden), a guide to butterflies you might encounter in the Midwest, a guide to native plants for a butterfly garden, and a guide to which plants are good hosts for particular butterfly species. Each butterfly and plant entry has a bar at the top with the approximate time frame when you might see that butterfly and when that plant is in bloom. The author also lists his "top ten" plants for a butterfly garden. Each entry has at least one color photo of the butterfly or plant species described. Oddly, there is a title page for a seventh chapter of the book on sources for native plants but the index comes right after this and there is no information on this topic in the book. I recommend this book if you live in the Midwest and already have basic gardening knowledge and experience or you will use this book as a companion to a basic gardening book as you begin a gardening hobby.

Very useful if you live in Ohio or Michigan. I use it all the time.

Easy read but then I love the subject. Gives those who want to develope a small or large area of their property to promote a safe and good resource of native food and larval plants for butterfly's.

Good information on how to start and maintain a butterfly garden.

Great book! For listed plants, identifies the butterflies using the plant for food, egg laying, or habitat.

This book us a useful book for checking what plants to grow, but does not include what zones the plants are hardy in.

I live in California and the information in the book is very limited to information on butterflies in California except for the Monarch.