Tags: 2015, Butterflies, David Snow, Meeting, Season 2015-2016

For our October event, David Snow presented “Creating a Butterfly Garden in Malibu.” David Snow’s talk covered how to attract butterflies into your garden by planting two types of plants; host plants and flowering plants that attract butterflies into the garden. He also discussed how to grow these various plants from seed and demonstrated how to transform your humdrum garden into a butterfly and hummingbird habitat. He brought many varieties of milkweed and other plants for purchase that are perfect for creating butterfly gardens.

In their larval stage, caterpillars of monarch butterflies feed almost exclusively on milkweed while adults monarchs get their nutrients from the nectar of flowers, so where there is milkweed, monarch butterflies may be found.

People are just beginning to discover what amazing plant milkweed is and it is becoming a popular host plant for the garden. Snow grows three varieties of milkweed and supplies a number of nurseries and many homeowners in Ventura County.