Butterfly Attracting Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Joliet

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

Sub-zero hardy to 40 degrees below, drought resistant, disease and insect free. Lacy, fern-like, deep green foliage compliments the beautiful pink and white blooms that start in June and bloom continually until September each year without replanting.

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

Drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummbingbirds, for a rain garden. Award winner! Black-eyed Susans have rich, golden yellow petals set off by bronze-black centers. Black-eyed Susans are ideal for sunny borders, along walls, by driveways or as...

Outstanding when planted in full sun. Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length. Drought and deer resistant. Great cut flower.

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. Mixed colors only.

The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action. A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores. The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore throats.

In mid-May it bursts into a mass of dashing pink flowers with deep golden stamens. Later, brilliant red berries appear that last all summer and throughout the winter. It is quite hardy, disease-resistant, and gives year round beauty.

* Plantago lanceolata is a species of genus Plantago known by the common names ribwort plantain, English plantain, buckhorn plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribleaf and lamb's tongue.

‘Wisteria Lane's large, dense plants display an uncommon weeping habit that flourishes long, majestic rich-violet flower spikes throughout summer. A glorious addition to your garden, and beacon to passing butterflies and hummingbirds.

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

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

These hardy, erect-branching shrubs will grow 5-10' tall for an informal privacy screen or can be trimmed for a neat, colorful hedge. Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season.

Prefers well-drained soil. Its compact size of only 6' tall makes it perfect for a hedge or specimen planting. Attracts butterflies, fragrant, deer resistant, good for cutting. Shipped: potted.

* Nettles contain a lot of nitrogenous compounds, so are used as a compost activator or can be used to make a liquid fertilizer, which although somewhat low in phosphate, is useful in supplying magnesium, sulphur, and iron.They are also one of the few...

* The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include the word mugwort.

Cataria is used as a recreational substance for pet cats' enjoyment, and catnip and catnip-laced products designed for use with domesticated cats are available to consumers. The tea shouldbe infused in a closed container in order to preserve the essential...

* A very ornamental plant. * Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing and continue until...

Each bloom is a massive cluster of pink flowers with honey fragrance – needless to say the best bee and butterfly magnet. The small size of this shrub makes it excellent for patio containers.

Excellent for butterflies and the birds will enjoy the seedheads in winter. A profusion of dark-eyed golden yellow, 3-5'', daisies are held above the tidy rosette of foliage throughout summer.

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.

Obtusifolia) and Coffee Senna (S. * Senna hebecarpa ( American Senna or Wild Senna ) is an ornamental plant native to North America , specially Canada and the United States . Two other species, Sicklepod (S.

The Pentas' nectar rich flowers are excellent for attracting butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and other garden beneficials. Pentas are excellent heat loving tropicals with plenty of flower power that do great in the ground or in containers.

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. * It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots...

For more about the story about the discovery of Henry Duelberg and Augusta Duelberg mealycup sages see the 'Extermal Info Link' below. This Greg Grant introduction produces loads of white spikes of tubular flowers from late spring to fall on this durable,...

Flower color and size is quite variable. The naturalized variety is typically tubular, bright red, about 1.25 in (3.2 cm) long. The hairy leaves, scalloped on the edges, are pea green, varying in size, all the way up to 3 in (7.6 cm) long and 2 in (5.1...

Large 3" wide, deep blue, cornflower-like daisies are produced on sturdy stalks starting in late spring and lasting through much of summer on well established clumps. Stoke's Asters or Stokesia Daisies are durable drought, deer, and rabbit resistant,...