Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Carrollton

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource.

* Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers.

* Plants can be grown as an informal (untrimmed) hedge, though they are also amenable to trimming. The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose. * The cultivar 'Tallhedge' has been selected for hedging.

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. * Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June.

It is quite hardy, disease-resistant, and gives year round beauty. The flowers have same fragrance as honeysuckle vines. You can't beat this radiant pink Honeysuckle for a tall screen of background hedge.

It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation. Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use, mostly derived from T.

* Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include the word mugwort. Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as...

An excellent source for cut flowers. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different colors: red, white and blue. Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall.

* 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.

* Cupressus forbesii is native to montane chaparral and woodlands habitats in the western Peninsular Ranges. * The Tecate cypress is the only plant on which the rare Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus thornei) lays its eggs.

He describes it as "chartreuse-green foliage and the normal tall golden yellow flowers. Great in foliage or flower. The best foliage color is during the winter months and in full sun".

It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed . They are used like broccoli. * Asclepias syriaca , commonly called Common Milkweed , Butterfly flower , Silkweed , Silky Swallow-wort , Virginia Silkweed , is a herbaceous plant species.

This durable perennial makes a great border, groundcover, or makes a great addition to containers. Katie Blue Dwarf Mexican Petunia is a lovely dwarf perennial that produces loads of bluish purple trumpet shaped flowers tucked in among the dark green...

* 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. * Easily grown in a good garden soil.

Clusters of rich purple flowers are produced on sturdy stems atop the medium green foliage from spring through summer and into fall. Cloud Eight is a semi-dwarf selection of Purole-Top Vervain with a compact and free flowering habit.

A profusion of dark-eyed golden yellow, 3-5'', daisies are held above the tidy rosette of foliage throughout summer. This is an easy, durable, and reliable drought tolerant and deer resistant perennial for any sunny border.

A tightly clump forming perennial, Eared Goldenrod produces loose arching arrays of bright yellow flowers in summer atop sturdy stems. An unusual and uncommon native found growing along stream sides and woodlands that is most common in western Louisiana...

Amistad Salvia begins flowering even when still small and your hummingbirds, butterflies, and native bees will love you for its continuous supply of rich nectar. An endless display of huge purple tubular flowers that emerge from dark colored calyxes are...

Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.

An easy groundcovering perennial, Under the Sea Selfheal produces fat spikes of dark bracts from which tubular purplish pink flowers emerge over an extended period from late spring and through early summer providing nectar to bees, butterflies, and other...

* Bright yellow flowers.

Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush is slightly smaller and more compact than Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Butterfly Bush and is less brittle.

Porterweeds are likely the number one favorite nectar plant for butterfly gardeners and surely for the butterflies themselves. The Purple Porterweed is a medium sized variety becoming fairly dense as it matures.

* 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.

Easy to grow and deer and pest resistant. It is a clump forming native perennial with an upright growth habit that generally dies back to the ground in winter. Somewhat drought resistant once well-established.

* Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle . * Unusual perennials with 2" spherical blue flowers in mid to late summer; the plant itself is rather rough and thistly with dark green leaves; good for middle or back of border; wants full sun and good...

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource.