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Butterfly Garden
Landscaping and Gardening
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SUBMITTED BY
NAMITHA K I
BFT/18/857
Concept
For the butterfly garden I have added Curry Leaves plant, Calotropis spp., Coat
Buttons (Tridax procumbens), Pentas, Lantana camara and Rose Periwinkle. The
selection was based on the availability of plants utilization of the space.

Name Butterflies that are

Curry Leaves plant
Calotropis spp.
Coat Buttons (Tridax
procumbens)
Pentas
Lantana camara
Rose Periwinkle
attracted
Common Mormon, Blue
Mormon, Lime Butterfly
Plain tiger
Crimson Tip Colotis
danae, Plain tiger
Lime butterfly
Papilio homerus,
common mormon
Udaspes folus, Papilio
demoleus, Delias
eucharis

So, from the selected plants most of them have common butterflies that are
attracted to them.
 Layout of the garden with existing plants

Marigold (Tagetes)
Bulbous Oat grass (Arrhenatherum e.
bulbosum ‘Variegatum’)
Waterlilly(Nymphaeaceae)

0.7M Nerium (Nerium oleander)

Dwarf jungle geranium(Ixora coccinea)
Transvaal daisy(Gerbera)
Dwarf White Bauhinia(Bauhinia acuminata)

1.95M

5M

4.5 M

3M

0.5M

*approx. measurements
Layout of the butterfly garden

symbol Name

Nectar plants Host

Curry Leaves plant
Calotropis spp.
Coat Buttons (Tridax
procumbens)
Pentas
Lantana camara

Rose Periwinkle