Obsession with Butterflies was created as a means of spreading an awareness of butterflies and the need to preserve their natural habitats. By providing enchanting Butterfly Themed Gifts, information on Butterfly Life Cycle and Butterfly Gardening we hope to interest and educate others about these enchanting creatures.

Butterfly Gift Shop!

Our Butterfly Gift Shop is filled with butterfly and nature inspired gifts for Kids and their Parents!

 

Butterfly Gardening

By gardening for the benefit of butterflies, you will not only bring some of their beauty and wonder into your yard, but you will also be helping to ensure the survival of some of these lovely creatures!
Below are a few simple guidelines to follow when creating your Butterfly Garden. Visit our Butterfly Gardening page for more information.

• Provide a Variety of Nectar Plants
• Provide Butterfly Host Plants
• Food and Shelter for the Butterflies that Visit your Garden
• Pesticide Free Organic Gardening
• Supply Your State's Native Host and Nectar Plants

Southern California Butterflies

There are appropriately 170 species of butterflies in southern California. For detailed information and images of our local butterflies caterpillars, eggs and plants they need to flourish here, visit our Southern California Butterflies page for a list of some of the more common or frequently found butterflies in southern California. Obsession With Butterflies would like to help inform others about the importance of maintaining the habitats for the beautiful butterflies we see here in southern California.

Butterfly Dreamin' by Kristen D'Angelo

Butterfly Gardening in Southern California:

Ever dreamed of the land where palm trees sway? Well, if you're a butterfly enthusiast, there is much more than surf and sand to keep your imagination busy where Southern California is concerned and as for the butterfly gardener, Southern California is a dream come true..

click here to read the whole story from the spring 2008 issue of NABA Butterfly Gardener.

Discover Unique Butterfly Jewelry in our Butterfly Gift Shop...

where each piece has been inspired by some of nature's most exquisite butterflies. Beautifully adorned necklaces, bracelets and earrings give reverence to the brilliant and colorful patterns found upon their wings.

Butterflies are God's confetti, thrown upon the Earth in celebration of his love - K. D'Angelo

Enter the Butterfly Dimension

For centuries, men, women and children, the young and old alike, have found themselves admiring the graceful flight of the butterfly. This aerial display, however, is only the beginning of this winged beauty's allure.

Once the butterfly has drawn you in with its visual charms, and you have become a captive audience, more wonders of their world will begin to be revealed, forever rendering you a willing student.

The butterflies domain is one of mystery and grace, where the miracle of metamorphosis rules. The tiniest egg becomes a colorful caterpillar. That caterpillar then changes into a curious chrysalis, from which then emerges a butterfly. . .To read more about the amazing metamorphic journey of butterflies, visit our "Butterfly Dimension" page.

One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar - Helen Keller

Obsession With Butterflies' Blog

We welcome you to visit our Flutter-Blog where you can read more about butterfly gardening, the excitement of finding butterfly eggs in your garden and the joy of raising butterflies at home!