A garden has become a “successful micro-reserve” for helping multiple types of butterflies by giving them more space and plants to thrive in.
Great Comp Garden, in St Mary’s Platt, near Sevenoaks, Kent, said that it hosts about 25% of the UK’s entire butterfly species, as 16 of them are based at the site.
Typical gardens would only have between five and 10 different species of butterfly.
The gardens said that since the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme began in 1976, overall butterfly abundance has dropped by nearly 20%.
