The butterfly bush, or summer lilac, is a shrub or small tree used as adornment in gardens that provides nectar for butterflies. I have three in my front yard and I love to watch the butterflies. Today, I finally got some photos of a beauty....can you tell which ones are real?
The ones below are not real....
I have these decorated butterflies around the bushes for color!
Good Morning Rebecca, I love butterflies. They are so peaceful to watch. Thank you for sharing your photos!
Thanks for sharing your photographs. Dolores and I like to photograph butterflies and have photographed hundreds of them.
Rebecca -- the bushes are beautiful. We have one in our back yard but it wants to be more of a tree. We had to cut it back when it started reaching for the cable and telephone wires!
Interesting way to add color to your garden.
The fake is much brighter, which suprised me.
Rebecca You sure had me fooled - I assumed they were all real - assuming is a bad idea :)
I have planted Lantanas in my yard, and have really enjoyed the butterflies who have come to visit. I love these Swallowtails, but have missed the Monarchs.
Thanks everyone for stopping by and viewing the real and not real butterflies....
I love butterflies. We like to plant lantana to attract butterflies. I will check out the lilac! Thanks for the tip!
Rebecca, Butterflies are so graceful. Too bad their life-span is so short...
It must be very special seeing these beautiful butterflies. The photos are wonderful, thank you for sharing them with all of us.
Rebecca: I love my butterfly bushes, and they are one of the only plants I cannot kill, no matter what I do to them! The butterflies they attract are so beautiful!
Rebecca, your butterflies are beautiful, whether they are real or fake - they do add color to your outdoor landscaping.
Rebecca, very funny and great pictures. I don't think the metal sculpture is real but then I guess I'm not really sure, lol.
Rebecca-I love to watch the butterflies too and have 4 full size ones and three more I just planted this year and that same butterfly is here as well. Don't know the name but they sure are pretty. I have lots of them.
The last photograph are the fake butterflies that are on a metal stick. They really look nice decorating the bushes.
They are all beautiful! How wonderful to have all those butterflies visit you!
Rebecca, I have two of these butterfly bushes in my front yard and they do attract a variety of butterflies.
Author Bio: Rebecca Gaujot is a licensed REALTOR®. She started in 1988 in Northern Virginia and now a full-time agent in Lewisburg, West Virginia. She has over 30 years of experience helping home buyers and home sellers successfully navigate through a real estate transaction in Lewisburg, White Sulphur Springs, Fairlea, Caldwell,WV and other areas of the Greenbrier County since 2007.
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