Events › Creating the Ultimate Butterfly Garden

Butterflies and moths used to be so plentiful that they filled our gardens with a kaleidoscope of fluttering color. Now, the skippers, swallowtails, painted ladies, ceanothus silk moths and monarchs seem to have disappeared overnight. But we can bring them back by growing the plants that nourish them at every stage of their development.

In this lecture we’ll help you:

• Understand the butterfly and moth life cycles
• Examine your own garden situation
• Design your garden space
• Discover ways to include sunning rocks and mud puddles
• Identify the ‘keystone’ native plants that feed the most butterflies
• Inspire your friends and neighbors to garden for butterflies as well

When you put together all these elements to create the ultimate butterfly garden, you’ll experience your outdoor space in a whole new way!

Attendees will receive a free packet of California native wildflower seeds that can help them start their own butterfly gardens.

(Registration not required, but if you would like to receive an event reminder email, please register using the link provided.)

About Jennifer Dirking

EcoGardenista Jennifer Dirking has been an organic gardener for over 40 years. Inspired by Doug Tallamy’s Nature’s Best Hope, she has reached beyond her garden fence to develop partnerships and inspire hundreds of others throughout the Bay Area to begin their own native gardening journey.

She is currently the Chair of the Wildflower Ambassador program at the CNPS-Santa Clara Valley Chapter. Jennifer also manages the Native Plant Resource Teams’ Pollinator Pathways Group, a program of the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour.

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An ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter or closed captioning can be provided for this program if requested at least seven (7) days in advance. For assistance, please contact your library or accessibility@aclibrary.org.