Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Alaska

Excellent for Butterflies, Bees, and Hummingbirds. Vitex is a vigorous, disease and deer resistant, drought and salt tolerant large spreading to upright deciduous shrub or small tree.

The nectar rich flowers provide fodder for a variety of pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies, and a variety of bees but especially bumblebees in our gardens. If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving...

Revels in the heat and sun but is known to flower in some shade as well! Enjoy it in the garden and add it to containers. Spikes of deep lavender tubular flowers are produced from spring to fall on this compact well-branched Salvia.

Few pests or diseases seem to bother this member of the mint family. Deadhead Selfheal to help extend the flowering season. This member of the mint family is easy to establish and requires little care once established in the garden as a groundcover beneath...

If your dwarf Mexican Petunias get too tall or leggy just cut them back to a few inches above the ground and they will quickly regrow and soon return to flowering. Here in zone 8B they freeze to the ground in most winters and we plant them atop winter...

A beautiful climbing perennial with sprays of lacy pink flowers all summer and fall. It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. An easy to grow and drought tolerant Heirloom plant that is highly treasured.

Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Deadheading is not required but removing spent flowers will help the plant look 'cleaner'.Buddleias can grow to become largeshrub-like perennials in mild climates but most grow as herbaceous perennials...

A succession of red tubular blooms that end in a purple bat-like 'face' are topped by a pair of glowing red 'ears' creating the interesting 'bat face' look. Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding perennial...

Considered by many to be the best of the Mountainmints, Clustered Mountainmint produces an abundance of tiny whitish tubular blooms touched with purple or lavender in tight clusters held above the attractive bluish white bracts.

Considered by many to be one of the most fragrant Passionvines with a strong gardenia-like perfume emanating from the 2" white flowers that have a purple stripe centered on the frilly corona.

A very early and often long flowering drought tolerant Liatris. Attracts butterflies. Clusters of deep violet-purple flowers emerge from short upright to arching stems in summer and are held above the deep green grass-like foliage of this tough bulbous...

Round clusters of lavender to white tubular flowers are born in summer on this durable native perennial. Use as fresh or dried cutflower. To learn more click here . Excellent for hummingbirds and butterflies.

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.

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...

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. This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly...

Considered by many to be the best of the Mountainmints, Clustered Mountainmint produces an abundance of tiny whitish tubular blooms touched with purple or lavender in tight clusters held above the attractive bluish white bracts.

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...

Somewhat drought resistant once well-established but will grow and flower better under average water conditions. If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes...

Even the new growth is bright red adding to its color show. For more information see an excellent article from JC Raulston Arboretum by clicking here or the "More info from Universities, ..." to the left.

Ripe seeds are utilized by birds. The Compass Plant is native to much of the central and eastern US. The dark green, deeply dissected foliage of the Compass Plant was used as a compass as the large leaves generally point north and south.

The flowers attract a large variety of pollinators including bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other garden beneficials. Hard late winter or early spring pruning promotes new growth and more flowers and helps to keep the plants more compact.

For more information see our Coral Honeysuckle Growing Guide . 'John Clayton' , named for the colonial botanist, was selected by the Virginia Native Plant Society and was found growing on the grounds of the 17th century Abington church in Gloucester,...

Attracts loads of butterflies and a variety of other pollinators. But after taking a second look at herbarium specimens this is definitely the rare L. If you have purchased Liatris squarrosa from us in the past it was in fact actually Liatris tenuis .

Texas Coneflower provides us with a medium-sized Rudbeckia that is similar in habit to the stately Giant Coneflower. A choice native coneflower, the Texas Coneflower produces 3-5" bright golden yellow daisies that are borne singly, or in small clusters...

An old and reliable perennial Verbena that produces large clusters of deep purple blooms from spring to fall. Spreads and slowly creates a dense groundcover or as a trailing plant in containers.

This Butterfly Bush Sampler includes 2 each of Yellow, Red and Black butterfly bushes.

Lavender flowers emerge from dense, dark purple to near black bottlebrush-like spikes beginning in summer and continuing until fall. Black Adder Agastache is a vigorous sterile hybrid with fragrant licorice scented foliage and so it continues to flower...