How-To: Butterflies
Best Butterfly Gardening Web Sites
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/unpave/monarchWWW.html
From Journey North
Butterfly gardens are easy to plant, and you can design one that gives monarchs habitat throughout their breeding cycle.
ButterflyGarden and Habitat Program
http://nababutterfly.com/
From North America Butterfly Association
NABA's Butterfly Garden and Habitat Program can help you create a paradise for butterflies while encouraging habitat restoration, no matter how large or small an area you have. Begin planning your garden with the Basics of Butterfly Gardening. Learn which native plants are suitable for butterfly gardens in your location with Regional Butterfly Garden Guides. Show your commitment to increasing butterfly populations and educating others by certifying your butterfly garden or habitat through NABA's Butterfly Garden Certification Program. Explore native butterfly garden plants selected by NABA's butterfly gardening community as essential plants to include in your garden with NABA's Butterfly Garden Plants.
“Milkweed for Monarchs: Keeping Things Native in Georgia Gardens”
http://eealliance.org/content/eeaga/86469/Spring%2010%20Chrysalis.pdf
This article discourages the planting of non-native tropical milkweed, which can lead to problems for monarchs by interfering with their natural migration cycle and increasing infections by OE parasites.
Monarch Watch's Monarch Waystation Program
http://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/
From Monarch Watch
To offset the loss of milkweed and nectar sources, Monarch Watch encourages people to create, conserve, and protect milkweed/monarch habitats. "Monarch Waystations” can be established in home gardens, at schools, businesses, parks, zoos, nature centers, along roadsides, and on other unused plots of land. Without a major effort to restore milkweeds to as many locations as possible, the monarch population is certain to decline to extremely low levels.