Wildflower Butterfly Blend

A blend of flowering species that will attract colourful butterflies to your garden year after year. Our butterflies are now heavily dependent on human respect and action to survive and thrive. This blend contains pollen and nectar rich flowers that are easy to access and bloom over a long season giving butterflies the varied and nutritious diet they seek. 

Blend contains lupin, zinnia, dianthus, marigold, alyssum, rudbeckia, echinacea, phlox, tithonia, bergamot and verbena.

A blend of annuals and perennials. The annuals should self-seed, although it can often help to over-sow the second year to establish the flowers as the dominant species over unwanted weeds. Some varieties will take until the second season to flower so be careful what you weed out or mulch over and don’t sow too densely.

Sow 3-5g per 10 square metres.

Wildflower Sowing Instructions

1. For best results sow in weed free soil
2. Prepare the soil to a fine consistency
3. For ease of sowing, mix the seed with seed raising mix; 1g seed to 100g of mix
4. Broadcast half the mix East-West, and half North-South for even spread
5. Lightly rake the soil to cover the seed
6. Water the whole area well with a fine spray
7. Keep soil moist during germination and establishment

PLEASE NOTE: It is our intention to supply a consistent selection of varieties for our blends. However, we reserve the right to adjust the recipe for these blends when it becomes necessary, due to availability, to do so.

Moths & Butterflies of New Zealand Trust

Not enough is known about our NZ butterflies and moths. Most conservation efforts have focused on our birds and trees. It is estimated that there are over 2,000 species of NZ butterflies and moths – mostly moths. More than 90% are found nowhere else – this is the highest proportion of unique butterflies and moths in the world. Another 68 species have been introduced since European settlement.

Of the butterflies, the red admiral, (Vanessa gonerilla gonerilla) was once found in most parts of NZ but has now retreated from many urban areas with gardens being ‘tidied’ and nectar-filled flowers disappearing with a change in lifestyle trends and gardening fashions. This butterfly, known to Maori as kahukura (red cloak) is only found in NZ – and according to one international lepidopterist, is the finest red admiral of them all.