Butterfly Attracting Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Norfolk

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate...

* This plant grows in prairies, on the margins of woods, and on roadsides. * The yellow rays (petals) droop downward and are arranged around a grayish-brown cone. * The disc heads have a scent reminiscent of anise when crushed.

Mixed colors only. Plants may have single or double blooms. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall.

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

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats and gonorrhoea. * Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an...

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. Grows 6'' tall. Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance.

* A good fibre is obtained from the leaves, it is said to be suitable for textiles. A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective cough medicine. * Considered to be an indicator of agriculture in pollen diagrams, P.

The Orange Glory Butterfly plant enjoys full sun and will withstand long periods of summer drought. It is a strong field-grown plant. Few flowers have more decorative value in the summer garden than the Orange Glory Butterfly plant.

The tea shouldbe infused in a closed container in order to preserve the essential oils, boiling is said to spoil it. Cats relish the intoxicating leaves and the tea is a popular night cap.

A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores. * The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action.

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 crimson red.

* Habit and Form an deciduous shrub dense, rounded habit ascending branches, erect 6' to 10' tall 4' to 10' wide medium texture moderate growth rate * White or rosy-lilac flowers in 3-7" clusters, often several to each branch tip, in May; flower fragrance,...

* Dietary amounts of red clover are safe, but medicinal quantities may cause rash-like reactions, muscle ache, headache, nausea, vaginal bleeding in women, and slow blood clotting.

Grows 6-8' tall. Drought and deer resistant. Great cut flower. A breakthrough in color! Bi-color is the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom. It is an excellent attractant for butterflies and hummingbirds.

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats and gonorrhoea. * Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an...

* Tall redtop or Purple-top is a 2 1/2-7 ft. In mass, this species puts a purple top on old fields and open woods. * Purpletop ( Tridens flavus ), also Red Top and Greasegrass , is a large, robust perennial bunchgrass, native to North America.

Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead can be enjoyed as a container plant or in the garden and landscape as a groundcover or as part of your summer tapestry. Dracocephalum is moderately drought resistant once well-established and is considered to be deer resistant.

Raise Monarch Butterflies in your own backyard! The Monarchs migrate through our area just as the Asclepias begin to awaken in spring, just in time for the females to lay their eggs on the new growth.

Occidentalis), are also found in the East. The flowers of this large plant are not typically pea-like. Obtusifolia) and Coffee Senna (S. Two other species, Sicklepod (S. Marilandica) is a more southern species with fewer flowers and bigger leaflets.

It is frequently used as an informal low hedge. * The fruit has been part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years, used to treat arthritis, leg edema, and cramping in the calf muscle.

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. Few other woody vines can provide the long flowering show that this wonderful native can provide as well...

An excellent cut flower that can last for up to a week in a vase. These seedlings originated from a vigorous native Louisiana population of this beautiful perennial. For more about Dawn, the wonderful arboretum, and Stephen F Austin's excellent horticultural...

An unusually large-growing variety. Huge scarlet pine-cone-like blooms to 8 inches long are borne in summer atop the large deep green tropical foliage.

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

The flowers of Pentas will attract butterflies and other nectar loving creatures to your gardens throughout summer. In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their return for the following season.

Deep magenta fragrant flowers are born in elongating conical clusters on this wonderful new Butterfly Bush with a somewhat compact and refined growth habit. The 'red' coloration of this butterfly magnet is often most pronounced in southern climates.

* Common yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that produces one to several stems (0.2 to 1m tall) and has a rhizomatous growth form. * The herb combines well with Sambucus nigra flowers (Elder) and Mentha x piperita vulgaris (Peppermint) for...