Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Florida

* The leaves are eaten raw or cooked, used as a flavouring in salads etc. * The leaves lose their flavour if the are cooked for any length of time and so are best used raw or added to cooked dishes only a few minutes before the cooking is complete.

* It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but can vary to red, white, and purple. * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India.

Enjoy the beauty and fragrance of Josee's lavender-pink flowers from May until frost! This highly unusual and desirable reblooming lilac is low maintenance and extremely mildew resistant.

* The leaves are eaten raw or cooked, used as a flavouring in salads etc. * The leaves lose their flavour if the are cooked for any length of time and so are best used raw or added to cooked dishes only a few minutes before the cooking is complete.

This is not an evergreen. (Our choice of color.) Plants may have single or double blooms. These hardy plants are welcome in any landscape. Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season.

Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.

Winner of the prestigous 2005 Fleuroselect Gold Medal! Grow 12-16'' tall. For a rain garden. Ideal for cut-flowers. Attracts butterflies. Highly drought tolerant. Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun.

Delightful red, white or purple hibiscus-shaped flowers blossom each summer in a lifetime of natural beauty. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season.

Includes: 3 each of Black-Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower.

An aromatic sweet tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves. * The leaves have been woven into skirts and aprons. The leaves are an aromatic pleasant tasting tonic herb that reduces spasms, expels phlegm and lowers fevers.

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.

Prairie Blazing Star is common in the prairies and forests of the central and north eastern US. Prairie Blazing Star is an easily grown native perennial that also makes an excellent cut flower, fresh or dried.

* A constituent of its extract has been found to be an effective and selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor. * The fruit has been part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years, used to treat arthritis, leg edema, and cramping in the...

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 .

The flowers and foliage, fresh or dried, is often used to make a very nice herbal tea, as a mild spice in cooking, and could certainly be used in potpourris as well (Bonnie fell in love with the fragrance of the dried seed heads!).

* 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.

* Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States . The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore throats.

Image courtesy of Star Roses and Plants, all rights reserved. If flowering seems to slow down remove about one third of the oldest stems in the shrub for renewal and fertilize with a balanced slow release fertilizer.

This naturally sprawling vine-like shrub can easily be pruned to produce a dense mass of foliage and flowers. Sweetly fragrant clusters of 2", star-like, pure white blooms are produced continuously throughout the summer months against a rich glossy green...

It is also used in treating kidney diseases. * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats and gonorrhoea. Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies.

Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. * Trees, 6-20 m tall. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on rocks; 600-1900...

In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species, or cultivar. Moore's Passionvine produces large yellow fruit with dark red pulp surrounding the seeds.

Either way, these are excellent, hardy, and long-lived perennials with immense flower power. This Turk's Cap has won the prestigious Lynn Lowery Award from the Native Plant Society of Texas! For more on Greg's introductions from the SFA Gardens website...

* 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 drainage; can be dried for winter arrangements.

Snow Queen Passionflower is a vigorous, hardy, and exceptionally free-flowering Riverside hybrid created by Myles Irvine of the UK that can be enjoyed in gardens or as a container plant.

They are shade tolerant but flower best when grown in sunny areas. If your Dwarf Mexican Petunias get too tall or leggy just cut them back to a few inches above the ground and they will quickly regrow and soon return to flowering.

Few other woody vines can provide the long flowering show that this wonderful native can provide as well as attracting loads of Hummingbirds. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies make this a lovely vine for fence, arbor or trellis.