Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Kansas

Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year. The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * A very ornamental plant, its flowers are very attractive to butterflies and moths.

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

It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. 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 sprouted seeds can be eaten. * The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. This species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , excluding the drier parts of the Prairies .

* 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. * This variety is upright growing, very columnar.

Winner of the prestigous 2005 Fleuroselect Gold Medal! Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies. Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped with yellow.

* Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine.

* Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria. * Leonotis nepetifolia, also known as klip dagga, Christmas candlestick, or lion's ear, is a species of plant in...

* Bright yellow flowers.

Tall Blazing Star is a native of the central US where it commonly found growing on clay soils. The tall sturdy spikes of this Liatris quickly develop white pearl-like buds that open to clusters of lavender flowers.

Use our 'Notify' tool to get a notice!! An exceptionally free flowering form of our native Coral Honeysuckle producing a nearly continuous display of red tubular blooms with a yellow throat.

* A constituent of its extract has been found to be an effective and selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor. * This plant is widely cultivated in temperate regions for its twining habit and its showy flowers which appear early in the season - occasionally...

A hummingbird magnet! Earlier flowering in the Southeast and later flowering as you move northward. Jacob Cline is one of the more reliable selections of Scarlet Bee Balm producing large clusters of brilliant red tubular flowers atop sturdy 3-4' stems...

A truly dwarf Buddleia producing loads of fragrant blue spikes on a low mounding plant that only grows to 2-1/2'!Of 107 Butterfly Bushes on trial at Wisley Gardens Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Butterfly Bush was the#2vote getter.

This Rudbeckia is unusual in that it will grow and flower quite well even under deciduous shade. Henry Eilers Sweet Coneflower was discovered in Illinois in a prairie remnant along a railroad.

This hybrid Greg Grant selection produces a large, vigorous, and free flowering Turk's Cap that revels in the heat and the sun of Southern summers. Either way, these are excellent, hardy, and long-lived perennials with immense flower power.

* The juice of the plant, when used as a friction, is said to have a stimulating action against baldness. It is used to treat conditions caused by an 'overload' of toxins, such as throat and other infections, boils, rashes and other skin problems.

Calyx 2-3.5 mm. Petiole 1-3 cm, glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 3.5-12(-18) 1.5-7(-10) cm, adaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, abaxially villous, base cuneate to subrounded, apex usually acute to acuminate.

The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit. Pentas are considered to be deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant.

Removing spent flowers will also help to prevent its spread in areas where this may be a concern. Deadheading spent flowers will help to promote continuous flowering but this is not required.

* If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle . It is native to Europe and western Asia .

Elderberry was selected as the 2013 Herb of the Year by the International Herb Society. This is an easy to grow native that makes a nice large informal screen or hedge or can even be pruned into a small tree form.

We often see a few flowers on our vines in the garden in winter but the main show is in spring with flowers continuing on and off often until fall. Clusters of deep orange 2" tubular flowers with yellow throats are held above the rich blue-green foliage...

This species is very susceptible to slug damage. Legume species. * Perennial wildflower, palm shaped leaves, blooms 2nd and 3rd year and successive seasons from expanding clumps. Requires an acid to neutral soil.

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 .

Dioica has a flavour similar to spinach mixed with cucumber when cooked, and is rich in vitamins A and C, iron, potassium, manganese, and calcium. Sowing time can be either in autumn or in spring.

A larger flowering form of the common Batface Cuphea which produces 1-1/2" long red tubular blooms that end with a purple bat-like face that is accented by the bright red 'ears'. Use in mixed containers or in mass to create a bold effect.