Creating a butterfly paradise

This year I realized one of my long-cherised dreams, which was 'seeing fluttering butterflies from my bed after waking up'.
This spring I created two butterfly beds, one in front of the house and one in front of the bedroom. The quality of ground in front of the bedroom was a problem as it all was hard rubble/stone with yellow sand and not removable. I bought fertilized garden soil and put a layer of max 10 cm on top of it; after this job was done I bought plants which can be found 'in the wild' on places without much soil. The growth started slowly but after my return from Aosta I found fluttering butterflies:

In the weekends during the summer it was wonderful to wake up and to sit in bed with a cup of coffee and enjoy the fluttering butterflies. 

Early October I created the third bed but I forgot the trick which I used on the other two beds.....to plant strongly scented plants around to keep rabbits and snails away. So when I came back from one week France my whole new bed was empty. I replanted a part of it and used little seeded catnip (nepeta) and stumps of pine trees to keep the rabbits away. Until now it worked very well and fingers crossed the eaten plants will survive the winter.

Two weeks ago I collected again a big lot of stones for free, to built the next butterfly bed in spring. In a few years the complete garden will be transformed into a nature/butterfly paradise with a lot of wildlife. A lot of work needs to be done and that is the reason why I'm not posting here regularly at the moment. But, my garden has much to photograph so as soon as I have more time available I will share some stories here!