White Flower Farm, a family-owned nursery in Litchfield, Conn., is celebrating Earth Day this year by focusing on native plants and educating consumers about them.
White Flower Farm offers many native plants and shrubs, including butterly larva food plants like asclepias, aster, aristolochia and baptisia. Among the best perennials to provide nectar for adult butterflies are asclepias, echinacea, eupatorium, heliopsis, liatris, monarda and rudbeckia.
For more information on White Flower Farm, go to WhiteFlowerFarm.com.