BUTTERFLY GARDEN DESIGN, INSTALLATION AND CONSULTATION

North Shore Butterfly Gardens works with homeowners to bring their properties to their highest and best ecological use -- within the context of residential settings and good design -- with the goal of supporting local butterfly populations.

2024 highlights

  • Check your grasses before cutting them down

  • Plenty of space for native and non-native

  • Lanceleaf coreopsis

  • Next year ordering double the amount of tulips!

  • Native plant garden at Tulane

  • Jacob's ladder

  • Tiarella as groundcover

  • Wild strawberry, allium and geranium maculatum

  • This property just needed a LOT of weeding to restore it.

  • Echinacea pallida

    grown by seed. took 3 years to flower.

  • Monarchs are here

    I see at least one Monarch here, all the time. So much fun!

  • Rudbeckia hirta, Black-eyed Susan

    all from seed. needs no watering except what we get from mother nature.

  • Plant and they will come

    Swallowtail caterpillar

  • love it when clients send me pics of their gardens

    I want to hear it all. who is showing up to NSBS gardens - hummingbirds, butterflies, birds, hawk moths, a millon native bees and flies and people.

  • Raised bed garden - veggies, flowers and herbs.

  • "lawn" inspiration

  • Bringing the garden inside

  • Zinnia in veggie garden

  • Aster in Fall garden

  • Annual cosmos in container

  • Color in a fall garden

”The butterfly said to the sun, “They can’t stop talking about my transformation. I can only do it once in my lifetime. If only they knew, they can do it at any time and in countless ways.”


– Dodinsky

 

What People Are Saying

“I love working with Deborah, and my family is enthralled with the beautiful and thriving garden ecosystems she has established in our yard!  Deborah is knowledgeable, creative, flexible, hard working, and delightful; she is passionate about native gardens and happy to share her expertise. Since beginning to convert a handful of discrete sections of lawn to native garden areas, my family spends so much more time in the yard, enjoying its constant changes and surprises, amazed by its diverse insect and bird visitors. Thank you so much!”

— Kathy

“Anyone would be so lucky to work with Deb. Over 2 years she has helped me turn 2/3 of my lawn into a thriving, low maintenance pollinator garden with blooms of one kind or another from May till October. I thought annuals were the only option for long lasting summer flowers, but I was wrong. we even got monarchs laying eggs and turning into caterpillars this summer! So very successful and very good for my spirit.”

— Diane

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