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On this page you'll find thoughts, advice and photos all about butterfly. Everything you find here comes from real gardens and gardeners who are part of the Grows on You community.

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We have 593 photos of butterfly

These photos are from real gardens by real gardeners! Just click on one to start exploring in slideshow format, or you can browse 16 at a time.

  • Our fragile fauna and flora
    Terratoonie
  • Swallowtail butterfly (osteospurmum)
    Janey
  • Orange tip butterfly.
    Bonkersbon
  • Swallowtail butterfly enjoying my phlox.
    Flcrazy
  • Spicebush  swallowtail
    Flcrazy
  • Red Admiral and Buddleia (Buddleja davidii (Butterfly bush))
    Janey
  • Comma Butterfly on Sedum spectabile (Sedum spectabile)
    Janey
  • Monarch Butterfly
    Flcrazy

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Gardeners' thoughts

One Aussie Butterfly - for Spritz

I was able to get a pic of this one which was fluttering around our yard. It's the most common butterfly around here, and...

58 comments

pip_c

8 Nov, 2010
Pip_c

"Butterfly Magnets"

We're often asked on GoY which plants attract insects-especially butterflies. It's not surprising, as I think that these...

97 comments

spritzhenry

5 Sep, 2010
Spritzhenry

monarch butterflies

my lovely swan plants have been totally covered by these hungry beings so i watched and waited to see if they would eat...

11 comments

piersdad

19 Apr, 2010
Piersdad

Ladybirds, Butterflies And Warm Weather !

I finished work at lunchtime today and have spent the afternoon pottering around, planting some bulbs and generally having...

54 comments

louise1

23 Oct, 2009
Louise1

Beautiful Butterflies

The Peacock The Painted Lady The Gatekeeper The Tortoise Shell Sadly no Photo of The Comma this Year or The Red Admiral...

37 comments

jacque

24 Aug, 2009
Jacque

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Questions & advice on butterfly

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Butterfly Mystery

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TERRNA

28 Sep, 2008
Terrna

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