Sharmila’s Butterfly Garden

Learning from mistakes and making a better garden

My name is Sharmila Nailadi , and I live in Avon , Connecticut . I have a small butterfly / cottage repeated garden that I originate when I move here almost five years ago . horticulture has always been my passion . I have experiment with annual and container horticulture for the past twenty - five year , but now my garden has mostly perennial , shrubs , and ornamental trees . industrial plant in my garden such as catmint , monarda , butterfly bush , and salvia are hummingbird and butterfly attracter . I ’m an creative person , and I think of a garden as a blank canvas that you fill up with plants of unlike colors and textures , just like an artist would do with paints .

My garden has been perpetually evolving , and it has been a rewarding , sometimes frustrating , learning experience . I have had successes and failure with my plants . The challenges ( in the scant growing time of year that we have ) have been to feel the right plants for the correct location ( part sun to part shade ) , finding flora that deer are not attracted to , and dealing with the irregular weather that we have here in Connecticut . Some eld we have had hot , dry summertime , and some eld it has been always soused and nebulous . There have been problem with pestilence such as Nipponese beetle and plant life disease such as powdery mildew and rusting . My promise for the future is to have learned from my past mistakes and to have a beautiful , healthy , colorful garden that attracts a variety of butterflies and doll .

Swallowtail butterfly stroke on ‘ Miss Molly ’ butterfly bush ( Buddleia‘Miss Molly ’ , Zones 5–9 ) .

Knockout rose ( Rosa‘’Radrazz ’ , Zones 5–9 ) growing as foundation plant .

Clematis‘Nelly Moser ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) , which is a bound bloomer .

Hydrangeaarborescens , ‘ Annabelle ’ ( Zones 3–9 ) get along the walk .

Annuals in containers .

‘ Peach Drift ’ rose in a mixed perennial bed .

Monarda‘Raspberry wine-coloured ’ ( Zones 4–9 ) growing almost 5 feet tall .

Echinacea‘PowWow Wild Berry ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) with its beautiful bright pinkish bloom .

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