Butterfly Attracting Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Massachusetts

Grow 2-3' tall. Drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummbingbirds, for a rain garden. Great cut flower. Black-eyed Susans are ideal for sunny borders, along walls, by driveways or as a focal point in perennial bed.

It is hardy and not easily outcompeted by other plants. * It is attractive to butterflies and birds. * This plant grows in prairies, on the margins of woods, and on roadsides. * Gray-head mexican-hat is a 3-5 ft.

Ever-so-easy upkeep; oblivious to high heat, blazing sun, and thirsty soil. Fragrant floriferous beacon draws an admiring entourage of hummingbirds and bees. Keep cutting the flowers, and the plants keeps blooming.

Flowers are mildly fragrant, and very attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and bees. Spike-like flower clusters bloom from early summer to first frost. It typically grows to 6-12' tall with a spread to 4-15' wide when not killed back by cold winter...

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail...

* Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * Siberian Wallflower makes a dramatic vibrant addition to a wildflower meadow. * It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade.

Aromatic and somewhat bitter. * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods.

Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies. All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars).

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall.

The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose. * Plants can be grown as an informal (untrimmed) hedge, though they are also amenable to trimming. * The cultivar 'Tallhedge' has been selected for hedging.

Can be successfully grown indoors. Passiflora mooreana was named in honor of Dugald Moore of the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden of Glasnevin, Ireland. The beautiful silvery-green delicate trilobed foliage makes it a great contrast for darker colored...

Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Great for cut flowers. Grows 9-12” tall even in poor soils and is heat tolerant. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has the same wonderfully compact, uniform growth...

* 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.

A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially. The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems. * The flower color is variable, ranging from lavender to blue to white.

An excellent addition to the perennial or shrub border and in containers. 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...

It grows best in full sun, but tolerates light shade and thrives in any moist, but well-drained soil. It grows in dense clusters along stream banks, thickets, and ditches, flowering from mid- to late summer.

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. It prefers a well-drained soil and may need midday shade in hot summer climates.

Where they stated that it is "The most striking and best landscape butterfly bush in the large group of Flutterby series buddleias is the Flutterby Petite Tutti Fruitti Pink." Images courtesy of Star Roses and Plants, all rights reserved.

Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae...

This is a wonderful drought tolerant, reliable, native perennial for the garden as well as butterflies and other pollinators. The last image in the group with a Bumblebee on the spikes of Henry Duelberg Sage was contributed by L Ledda of Texas.

To learn more about this excellent perennial Salvia " Salvia x "Indigo Spires", Indigo Spires Salvia " from the University of Florida Extension Service by Edward Gilman and David Marshall.

* Native to forests; 100-800(-1600) m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].

The far right image showing the Ruby Throat Hummingbird taking a breather, or is she really guarding her stock of nectar?, was taken and kindly shared with us by Susan Whitney. I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply...

May not tolerate poor drainage but at the same time will do well in most soils from clay, calcareous, limestone, and sand. Excellent drought tolerance once well-established as well as good deer resistance and reliability.

Like the native Maypop Passionflower, Incense readily spreads by rhizomes. In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species, or cultivar.

Pentas are considered to be deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant. In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their return for the following season.

* If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer. * The flowers are often used for dried flower displays.