Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Connecticut

Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource. Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination.

This plant is a main stay of the perennial border. We ship sturdy ready to grow plants. We send assorted colors: rich purples, orchid-pinks and lilacs, vibrant reds, and pure whites.

Bloom: July-September. They are insect and disease free and resistant to drought and deer. Great cut flower. Black-eyed Susans are ideal for sunny borders, along walls, by driveways or as a focal point in perennial bed.

The growing plant repels whitefly and can be grown near tomatoes to keep that crop free of the insect. 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).

Few flowers have more decorative value in the summer garden than the Orange Glory Butterfly plant. Drought resistant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant, for a rain garden, deer resistant and great for cut flowers.

The common name is primrose , or occasionally common primrose or English primrose to distinguish it from other Primula species also called primroses. The leaves are often available all through the winter.

Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

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

Blooms late summer to early fall. It is native to Europe and western Asia . * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer.

Lovely pink/white blooms to beautify slopes and problem areas from June through September. Northern grown 1 year old roots. Sub-zero hardy to 40 degrees below, drought resistant, disease and insect free.

* This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two metres.Its erect, branching gray stems bear the occasional sharply toothed, sharp-lobed pointed green leaf.

* In Canada, dill is a favorite herb to accompany poached salmon. * Depending on where it is grown, is either a perennial or annual herb. * The leaves lose their flavour if the are cooked for any length of time and so are best used raw or added to cooked...

* The popular old-fashioned flower; likes limey soil; native to Russia and China. It is best treated as a biennial in the garden. The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position.

Blooms late summer to early fall. It is native to Europe and western Asia . * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer.

The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves. * The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics . * The plant is often cultivated for its showy flowers, and can sometimes be found outside its...

* Cupressus forbesii, now reclassified by some as Hesperocyparis forbesii, and with the common names Tecate cypress or Forbes' cypress, is a species of cypress native to southwestern North America.

These seedlings originated from a vigorous native Louisiana population of this beautiful perennial. A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast...

* Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae , that is native to much of North America .

* Swamp milkweed is an upright, 100- to 150-centimeter (39- to 59-inches) tall plant, growing from thick, fleshy, white roots . A pea-like flavour, they are very appetizing. The oppositely arranged leaves are 7 to 15 centimeters (2.75 to 6 inches) long...

* This species is native to the temperate regions of the old world, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, and from the British Isles through Russia, and the Middle East to China and Japan, including India.

Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource. Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination.

A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection.

Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family.

What a discovery that must've been! Verbena's are cool season growing perennials and so that is when fertilize should be applied. Spreads and slowly creates a dense groundcover or as a trailing plant in containers.

Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results. It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return year after year.

Great cut flower. Outstanding when planted in full sun. Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length. Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of...

The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.