Butterfly Attracting Plant Fragrant Flowering Plant For Sale In Colorado Springs

* Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white roots . Typically, its stems are branched and the clump forming plants emerge in late spring after most other plants have begun growth...

* A member of the mint family; many small flowers on short spikes, usually blue but rarely pink, purple, or white; forms a dense mounded plant; used in cooking; aromatic; full sun, dry soil; native to southern Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Turkey.

Drought tolerant. This spectacular cultivar of butterfly bush is valued for its intense, deeply colored wine-red flowers. The fragrant, long panicles are showy from June to September and attracts loads of butterflies and hummingbirds.Grows 4-8' tall and...

The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves. * The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its native range as an escape from cultivation.

* It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed.

* Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls. Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position.

* Clethra alnifolia ( Sweet Pepperbush , Anne Bidwell or Summersweet ), is a flowering plant in the genus Clethra , native to eastern North America from southern Nova Scotia and Maine south to northern Florida , and west to eastern Texas .

The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding. It is a shrub growing to 3-6 m tall, with erect branches. The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes...

* Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub. It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum...

* Yarrow has a high reputation and is widely employed in herbal medicine, administered both internally and externally. * The herb combines well with Sambucus nigra flowers (Elder) and Mentha x piperita vulgaris (Peppermint) for treating colds and influenza.

Firefly Heather has been awarded a winner of Britains prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. In late summer, lots of purple-pink flowers open up to make a stunning contrast with the foliage.

* It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils, at an altitude of 0–400 metres (0–1,300 ft) above sea level. They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence...

* It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall with many large serrated leaves around the base of the stem on winged petioles. * It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world as an...

In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall. These hardy plants are welcome in any landscape. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

* The bark or leaves have been chewed by children as a treatment for sore mouth. * Plants can be grown as an informal hedge. * An essential oil used in perfumery is obtained from the flowers.

* Sakaki is one of the common trees in the second layer of the evergreen oak forests. * The small, scented, cream-white flowers open in early summer, and are followed later by berries which start red and turn black when ripe.

It is obtained by macerating the seed in hot water. It also contain the iridoid glycosides aucubin and catalpol. A mucilage from the seed coats is used as a fabric stiffener. It is a common weed of cultivated land.

A very ornamental plant, when fully dormant it is hardy to about -15°c, though the young growth in spring can be damaged by late frosts. It is common in the Pacific Northwest where it is found in both openings and the forest understory at low to moderate...

* It is native to northwestern China and Japan . * It is widely used as an ornamental plant. * Buddleja davidii , (old spelling Buddleia davidii ); also called summer lilac , butterfly-bush or orange eye ) is a shrub in the Buddlejaceae family .

* It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils, at an altitude of 0–400 metres (0–1,300 ft) above sea level. They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence...

* Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native to China. The flowers are fragrant and range in colour from pink to mauve, sometimes with a white base; they are produced in early summer on panicles 4-25 cm long and are attractive...

It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders. * The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild.

* Succeeds in poor soils and, once established, tolerates drought. Tolerant of dry chalk soils, it also succeeds in maritime gardens. * A very ornamental plant. In cultivation people often cut the plants to the ground in the spring in order to encourage...

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long.

* Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in the family Myricaceae , order Fagales . It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota .

Where not hardy, heat and humidity tolerant Pentas make wonderful annuals for gardens or containers. The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit.

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. It flowers all summer and fall. This is the selection with the deepest red color, comes from seed collected in southern Baja California.