Butterfly Garden

Major upgrade in the Spring of 2009, the Butterfly garden is located on the right side of the path, just inside the main footpath entrance to Hatcher Garden. This area has a brick patio and Giant Sculpture of a Monarch Caterpillar sitting on a fence rail. The butterfly garden provides a great place for folks to spread out a picnic blanket and enjoy the beauty of the Garden from a flat smooth surface.

Plants in the Butterfly Garden are chosen to attract and feed the many species of local butterflies who can be found here regularly from late spring to early fall. Lantanas throughout the garden are also very attractive to the butterfly population.
Butterflies are vital for pollinating flowers and we are proud to give these special little friends and invaluable helpers a place of honor inside Hatcher Garden.

Lantana, Chapel Hill Yellow
Pintas, Stars and Stripes
Butterfly Bush, Evil Ways
Ginger Lilly
Veronica, Sunny Border Blue
Verbina, Homestead
Agistachi
Galardia
Iron Weed 'Iron Butterfly'
Cone Flower
Cariopteras, Longwood blue
Salvia Hotlips

Engraved Bricks make the Butterfly Garden provide a unique place for people to celebrate life at Hatcher Garden. Bricks in the Butterfly Garden may be purchased and custom engraved to commemorate friends, family and special occassions. For more information on customizing your own brick and having it placed in the garden, click here.

Click here for a Garden Map showing the layout of Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve.



Hatcher Garden is open the public 365 days a year during daylight hours (except for leap years when it is open 366). There is no charge for admission to Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserves. We are supported by the hard work of our volunteers and the generous donations of our members and sponsors.