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A good choice for butterfly gardens. Spreads and slowly creates a dense groundcover or as a trailing plant in containers. The trailing Verbenas are one of the earliest flowering perennials in our gardens and provide the early hummingbirds and butterflies...

Clusters of rich purple flowers are produced on sturdy stems atop the medium green foliage from spring through summer and into fall. Cloud Eight is a semi-dwarf selection of Purole-Top Vervain with a compact and free flowering habit.

In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species, or cultivar. Pollinated flowers are followed by round passion fruit that ripen to yellow and contain a tangy tropical...

Spikes of 2" vivid fuchsia tubular fuzzy flowers emerge from dark colored calyxes and are held atop the dark green, glossy rounded foliage from spring to fall on this compact growing Salvia.

The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces, and containers where it is sure to attract loads of butterflies and other pollinators! The Lo & Beholdtm Buddleja...

Tough, easy, and great for Hummingbirds. Turk's Cap is well-loved and so is known by a variety of common names including: Turk's Turban, Ladie's Eardrops, Scotchman's Purse, Wild Fuchsia,Drummond Wax-Mallow, Texas Mallow, Mexican Apple, Red Mallow, May...

A tough and hardy, drought tolerant, perennial US Native. Masses of tall wispy deep pink spikes are covered by a succession of large pink butterfly-like flowers throughout summer.

This Passionvine along with many of Myles Irving's Riverside hybrids appear to rarely produce fruit and are often triploid to tetraploid in nature. Snow Queen Passionflower is a vigorous, hardy, and exceptionally free-flowering Riverside hybrid created...

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

Where not hardy, heat and humidity tolerant Pentas make wonderful annuals for gardens or containers. The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit.

This exciting new day-length neutral and thusly free flowering Black-Eyed Susan was discovered at Dupont Nursery near Plaquemine, Louisiana and is sure to bring in the butterflies and pollinators as well as providing color all summer.

Pruning if necessary should not be done after June as you may be removing flower buds for the late summer/fall show. October Skies Aster is a low mounding perennial that develops into a compact shrub-like plant by flowering time.

A rosette of large, rich dark green glossy foliage subtends the flower stalks. We have to say thank you to Marc Pastorek and C.C. Richmond for sharing this with us! The Texas Coneflower is found only in Louisiana and SE Texas.

In zone 8B-9 we find that a small percentage larger growing Porterweeds, like Lavender, Coral, and Purple, may return from the roots in late spring if well mulched. Porterweeds are excellent nectar producers outperforming nearly all other butterfly plants...

Summer Jewel Red is a 2011 All American Selection Award winner and produces a nearly non-stop display of scarlet red tubular flowers from spring to frost on a compact plant that begins flowering earlier.

The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces, and containers where it is sure to attract loads of butterflies and other pollinators! The Lo & Beholdtm Buddleja...

It flowers all summer and fall. An easy to grow and drought tolerant heirloom plant. It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. On a recent trip to west Texas, we saw what must have been over 50 butterflies on...

Removing spent flowers will also help to prevent its spread in areas where this may be a concern. Where drainage is poor consider providing raised beds or grow them as container plants.

Paradoxa , is a taprooted native that is typically found in or near the shallow soils of rocky glades and prairies as well as near balds in the rounded, aging Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri.

An excellent cut flower that can last for up to a week in a vase. A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection.

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. Once again we should all thank Greg Grant for another excellent selection! This tough little sage was found growing in a...

A native of the southern most portions of Texas and Florida, Crucita can be found in flower as early as mid summer to late fall. To learn more click here . In cooler climates it may act as a die-back perennial returning from the roots in spring.

Colorwheel Stokesia is just as tough and reliable as its brethren creating a mound of foliage on a durable and dense clump forming native perennial. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries.

White, fragrant bloom spikes reaching 16", are held against the green, velvety foliage. Attracts scads of butterflies. Considered by many to be the best white butterfly bush. Butterfly Bush is considered invasive in some areas, please consult your local...

Henry Eiler's is unique in that is has petals that are quilled or rolled into tubes as well as having flowers that are more yellow than gold all with the same easy to grow habit of the Sweet Coneflower.

Mainly they do not like to stay wet and avoid over fertilizing these plants as they can grow too lush and soft and may have a tendency to flop. The flower clusters make great resting places for tired pollinators.

Periodic deadheading is not required but may help to keep the plants looking fresher. It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return year after year.