The Rotary Club of Skegness have presented a cheque to Rachel Shaw at Gibraltar Point Wash Study Centre to enable them to establish a Butterfly Garden. It is hoped this will become an additional resource for the study centre and enrich the environmental studies being completed at the centre. This was a joint club and district project and The Rotary Club of Skegness express thanks to the district environment officer for supporting this project. Picture shows President Margaret Taylor, District Environment officer Fiona Martin and Rachel Shaw from Wash Study Centre. Britain has over 50 varieties of butterflies but unfortunately these pretty creatures are becoming rare. You don't need a lot of space in a garden, but with a little bit of knowledge and the right plants a garden can be turned into a butterfly paradise.

How to attract butterflies
Provide the butterflies with warmth (a sunny spot), shelter (shrubs and trees) and nectar and butterflies will start to use your garden to feed and maybe even breed.

Ten plants to try
1. Aubretia, Aubrieta 'Doctor Mules'; a carpet-forming plant that produces rich violet or blue flowers in May and June.
2. Sweet rocket, Hesperis matronalis; deliciously scented plant that produces white, violet or purple flowers from May to August.
3. Red valerian, Centranthus ruber; a cottage garden plant that produces clusters of red flowers from mid-summer through to autumn. Great for dry soil.
4. Lavender, Lavandula; a familiar garden favourite, producing white, pink, blue or purple aromatic flowers during the summer months. Flowers and foliage are used for making pot-pourri.
5. Honesty, Lunaria annua; a tall plant with heart-shaped leaves and sweet-smelling pink or violet-purple flowers from April to June.
6. Teasel, Dipsacus fullonum; a plant that produces spiny flower-heads of pinkish purple from mid- to late summer.
7. Small scabious, Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue'; a long-flowering plant that produces lavender-blue flowers from late spring well into autumn.
8. Butterfly bush, Buddleja davidii; this plant produces cone-shaped clusters of tiny flowers in either purple, white, pink, or red. Irresistible to butterflies!
9. Golden rod, Solidago 'Goldenmosa'; a clump-forming border plant that produces feathery, golden flower-heads in late summer and early autumn.
10. Ivy, Hedera helix; an evergreen climbing vine that will provide winter nectar for the few remaining butterflies in your