Butterfly Attracting Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Philadelphia

Firefly Heather has been awarded a winner of Britains prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Grows 18-24'' tall and wide. Grows in sunny warm areas where it will tolerate heat and drought very well.

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. Great cut flower.

Europe, Caucasus, western Siberia. The fresh or dried flowering plant can be used, with or without the roots. An infusion is used internally as a blood purifier and externally for treating cuts, burns and bruises.

* Depending on where it is grown, is either a perennial or annual herb. * In Poland, where dill is called "koper," it is one of the most popular herbs used in the kitchen, and, along with parsley and chives, is used for various purposes.

* Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America . The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy.

* Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea . * The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown.

* Direct sowing: The seedbed should have a loose and fine structure, but should be reconsolidated using a packer roller imminently prior to sowing. * Historically, nettles have been used to make clothing for 2,000 years, and German Army uniforms were...

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). The whole plant contains substances that are toxic to cockroaches.

An infusion of the leaves has been used as a steam bath in the treatment of rheumatism. The plant has been used as a poultice for removing the pus from scrofulous sores or boils. Keep the soil moist and pot up as soon as the plants are big enough to handle,...

We send 1 to 1 1/2' plants. You can't beat this radiant pink Honeysuckle for a tall screen of background hedge. This variety is vigorous and dense-growing. In mid-May it bursts into a mass of dashing pink flowers with deep golden stamens.

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent.

* A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade. * Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in...

* A good fibre is obtained from the leaves, it is said to be suitable for textiles. It is a common weed of cultivated land. Something that is considered to be an indicator of grazing in that area.

Spreading growth to 12". * The plant reaches 2 to 4 ft (0.61 to 1.2 m) in height, with many branches, and a spread of about 2.5 ft (0.76 m). Cultivated varieties include orange-red, pink, salmon, red, white, and scarlet, and include bi-colored varieties.

* Aristolochia serpentaria is a species of perennial flowering plant in the Aristolochiaceae (birthwort) family. * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly.

The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. * The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. Both are dried for later use. A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores.

* A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China. * Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position.

This may be a hybrid or a selection of Monarda didyma that was developed by Darrell Probost of Massachusetts and was introduced to the nursery trade by White Flower Farm. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved.

An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production.Average moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soils. Spikes of 2" vivid fuchsia tubular fuzzy flowers emerge from dark colored calyxes and are held atop the...

Once again we should all thank Greg Grant for another excellent selection! This tough little sage was found growing in a cemetery with no care except for the periodic weed eater for pruning.

Buddleias or Butterfly Bushes do best where they have good drainage and prefer a full to mostly sunny position for the best overall health and flowering. The Flutterby Petite Tutti Fruitti Pink Butterfly Bush was selected as a Louisiana Super Plant by...

It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum ). * Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub.

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...

An exceptionally free flowering form of our native Coral Honeysuckle producing a nearly continuous display of red tubular blooms with a yellow throat. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.

A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of lilac colored, fragrant flowers. The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces, and...

Sometimes called the Butterfly Bush or Christmas Senna, this durable plant is considered to be somewhat drought tolerant once well-established and is deer resistant. Where temperatures drop below freezing it is more likely to be deciduous.

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .