Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Berkeley

Firefly Heather has been awarded a winner of Britains prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. In the fall and winter, the foliage is bright red. Firefly's intensely colored tiny evergreen leaves that cover the stems of the plant are a...

* The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its native range as an escape from cultivation. * Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June.

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi).

Delightful red, white or purple hibiscus-shaped flowers blossom each summer in a lifetime of natural beauty. Mixed colors only. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall.

Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance. Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red, pink, white, and bi-colors.

* Depending on where it is grown, is either a perennial or annual herb. * This is common dill that is used in pickles and for flavoring. * The leaves are eaten raw or cooked, used as a flavouring in salads etc.

Outstanding when planted in full sun. Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of hummingbirds. Butterfly Bush is a must for every late summer perennial garden.

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but...

It thrives in full sun in ordinary garden soil. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats...

* It was named in honor of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber, a friend of Carolus Linnaeus. It is indigenous to South Eastern Africa and commonly known as the Barberton daisy, the Transvaal daisy, and as Barbertonse madeliefie in Afrikaans.

Deer resistant. Once established requires little care. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has the same wonderfully compact, uniform growth habit as Arizona Sun Gaillardia, but in the exciting color of...

Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47. Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters.

* It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots were secretly added to the food of an arguing couple then this would avert a divorce and they would love each other again.

About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage). These secretions are produced about 3 - 4 months after sowing.

It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.

Well-known species include Meadowsweet (F. Stems sulcate, pubescent or glabrescent. Stipules semicordate, large, herbaceous, margin sharply doubly serrate; petiole pubescent or subglabrous; leaf blade pinnate, with 2 pairs of lateral leaflets, abaxially...

A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family.

* Beebalm has a long history of use as a medicinal plant by many Native Americans, including the Blackfeet. The dried leaves and flowers are used to scent and add colour to pot-pourri.

* The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its native range as an escape from cultivation. * Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June.

* The tender young shoots are sometimes added to spring salads. It differs from other similar species in that it has 4 lobed flowers, whereas Small Scabious and Field scabious have 5 lobes and hence it has been placed in a separate genus in the same family...

* Beebalm has a long history of use as a medicinal plant by many Native Americans, including the Blackfeet. The dried leaves and flowers are used to scent and add colour to pot-pourri.

It is much cultivated as a culinary herb . * Leaves and flowering tops - raw in salads, used as a garnish or added as a flavouring to cooked foods, going especially well with mushrooms and courgettes.

Porterweed is known to reseed particularly in mild winter climates. Produces larger purple flowers with a slightly lighter red-purple eye and less conspicuous white throat, Henlea's Hummingbird Heaven Porterweed appears to be the true Lavender Porterweed...

It grows well in sandy soils and is drought tolerant once established. * Seed propagaqtion- best sown in early spring in situ. The seeds are used in cookery and sweet desserts. It is one of the most important spices in Kashmiri Pandit and Gujarati cooking.

Grow 2-3' tall. Award winner! Black-eyed Susans have rich, golden yellow petals set off by bronze-black centers. They are insect and disease free and resistant to drought and deer.

This rare plant is sustainably produced in nurseries and is now available to the public. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. There is reported to be a sister species, E.

Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers. Purple Coneflowers are practically indestructible because they are sub-zero hardy and withstand heat, grow in dry locations and love poor soil.