Butterfly Attracting Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Milwaukee

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

One plant covers four square feet. Grows so thick, it chokes out even persistent weeds and requires no mowing or care. Grows 12-24'' tall. To cover steep slopes, poor soil trouble areas, stream or pond banks where erosion control is needed, there's no...

Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods. This species is also occasionally known as Felon Herb , Chrysanthemum Weed , Wild Wormwood , Old uncle Henry , Sailor's...

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.

Reaches 8-10' and can be trimmed to 6-8'. This variety is vigorous and dense-growing. The flowers have same fragrance as honeysuckle vines. It is quite hardy, disease-resistant, and gives year round beauty.

Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource. Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers.

* Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June. * The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics . * The name basket flower refers to the stiff, straw-colored bracts just beneath the flower head, which are...

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from...

* Leucanthemum maximum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name max chrysanthemum. * Easily grown in a good garden soil. * It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world...

The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore throats. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action.

* The yellow rays (petals) droop downward and are arranged around a grayish-brown cone. * Ratibida pinnata is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names pinnate prairie coneflower, gray-head coneflower, yellow coneflower,...

* This heirloom variety matures in about 80-90 days but some stems can be cut before maturity. * Chives ( Allium schoenoprasum ) are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae * Allium schoenoprasum is also the only species of Allium native to...

Showy, bright, rose-purple flowers with orange-yellow centers bloom in profusion at the tips of the leafy branches. * Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering herbaceous perennial...

The interesting and beautiful, yellow foliage of this Greg Grant selection of the Giant Coneflower makes for a wonderful contrast with other garden plants. Great in foliage or flower.

Where not hardy, heat and humidity tolerant Pentas make wonderful annuals for gardens or containers. Rich red 3" flowers clusters. An excellent choice for butterfly and hummingbird gardens that will flower from summer until frost.

* Yields an essential oil, used in perfumery, as a hair tonic etc. * Its odor is considered similar to that of the bergamot orange (the source of bergamot oil used to flavor Earl Grey tea.

It merits consideration for cultivation in forest areas. The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and Florida.

* 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,...

With most passionflowers the 5 stamens (pollen producing glands) arch downward once they are ready to release their pollen (and nectar) then on the next flower, hopefully, the 3 stigmas will arch downward once they are ready to receive pollen thus doing...

It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers. It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early...

Filipendula species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species: Emperor Moth, Grey Pug, Grizzled Skipper, Hebrew Character, Lime-speck Pug, Mottled Beauty and The Satellite have all been recorded on Meadowsweet.

For excellent info on Elderberry from the Herb Society of America click here . Occasionally we pick the large ripe fruit clusters whole as a treat for our chickens. This is an easy to grow native that makes a nice large informal screen or hedge or can...

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . * Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer.

Mascagnia macroptera is evergreen to about 25 o F but below that it may lose all or most of its foliage which quickly returns with the warm days of spring. It is reported to grow in zone 7 if given a protected site and winter care but may freeze to the...

Finely textured blue-gray foliage on a plant that becomes more dense with age. Blooms from late spring through summer. Each golden yellow petal is heavily splashed with burgundy and surround the tall brown central cone of each daisy-like flower.

* 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.

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. * This variety is upright growing, very columnar.