Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Bridgeport

The American Elderberry is a large growing native deciduous shrub whose cooked fruit and flowers are used to create healthy and delicious confections, syrup, jelly, wine and more. In the colder winter portions of its range it should planted in spring...

For more about the story about the discovery of Henry Duelberg and Augusta Duelberg mealycup sages see the 'External Info Link' below. Thank you for allowing us to use this image! Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular...

Under natural conditions Azure Blue Sage produces tall arching stems that terminate into large, often branching, spikes of flowers that are quite suited to use by Hummingbirds and butterflies.

A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of white fragrant flowers. The small size lends Ice Chip to the perennial border, smaller spaces, and containers where it is sure to attract loads of butterflies! The Lo & Beholdtm Buddleja...

Flowers the first year! Echinacea or Purple Coneflowers are beautiful and hardy, clump forming fibrous rooted or taprooted North American native perennials that attract butterflies and other pollinators.

Buddleias can grow to become large shrub-like perennials in mild climates but most grow as herbaceous perennials in zone 6 and colder. Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results. Kobalt Anise Sage is sometimes often sold as 'Cobalt'. Periodic deadheading is not required but may help to keep the plants looking fresher.

Elderberry was selected as the 2013 Herb of the Year by the International Herb Society. Occasionally we pick the large ripe fruit clusters whole as a treat for our chickens. The American Elderberry has huge flat clusters of tiny white flowers followed...

Deadhead to extend flowering into fall. 1-1/2" bright orange-yellow daisies top this diminutive and durable dwarf Coreopsis in late spring and early summer. Provide Mouse-Eared Tickseed with average moisture and good drainage in average garden soils for...

The blooms are borne continuously from late spring to fall. Deep violet flowers hang like grapes from this upright to arching shrub. Buddlejas are considered invasive in some areas, please consult your local state offices before purchasing.

Along with 'Herbstonne', the Sweet Coneflower is one of the latest to flower. These Rudbeckia's are good for attracting smaller butterflies and it seems that the Red Banded Hairstreak is one to find its nectar attractive.

An unusually large-growing variety. Huge scarlet pine-cone-like blooms to 8 inches long are borne in summer atop the large deep green tropical foliage.

This Texas and Mexican native with an upright to arching growth habit is a root hardy perennial in the northern portions of its range but may become shrub-like in mild winter climates.

The Ozark, Bush's, or simply the Yellow Coneflower is a native of the Ozark regions of northern Arkansas and central Missouri. There is reported to be sister species, E. In midsummer it produces the fragrant, nectar rich yellow flowers atop sturdy 2-3'...

An unusual and uncommon native found growing along stream sides and woodlands that is most common in western Louisiana and eastern Texas but is also found in much of the southeast as well.

Flat-Top Goldenrod is found most commonly throughout the western portions of Louisiana and intermittently in east Texas generally on well-draining, acidic soils. In our area it flowers at the same time as Slender Blazing Star, Liatris acidota , and they...

The extra large, up to 5" wide, long lasting flowers of the Star of Surbiton Passion Flower are composed of pure white petals and sepals that are topped with a large corona of contrasting deep purple, white, and light pink filaments.

In the northern most portions of their range, zones 5 and 6, they should be provided with a deep winter mulch. Peachies Pick is a dense clump forming and exceptionally long flowering selection of the Stokesia Daisy.

Called Popcorn Cassia because when brushed or crushed the foliage emits the wonderful fragrance of freshly buttered popcorn. Tall spikes of dark golden yellow 1" blooms are born in summer and fall on an upright growing shrub.

Interestingly the flowers of S. Blue Porterweed is an intermediate growing Porterweed and has a fairly dense upright habit. We had previously and mistakenly offered this as Stachytarpheta jamaicensis , it is in fact Stachytarpheta cayennensis .

For more on Greg's introductions from the SFA Gardens website click the "More Info" link below. 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...

I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even most Lantana has to catch its breath from time to time during the heat of summer.

Great for butterflies and pollinators. Excellent deer resistance. A clump forming native that flowers from late spring through mid-summer and sometimes into fall. Plant Rough Coneflower as a specimen or in mass for a wonderful effect.

This variety is vigorous and dense-growing. We send 1 to 1 1/2' plants. It is quite hardy, disease-resistant, and gives year round beauty. Later, brilliant red berries appear that last all summer and throughout the winter.

Savanna or Appalachian Mountainmint has nicely fragrant, medium green foliage and is considered to be one of the better Mountainmints for garden settings as it is not as prone to spreading by rhizomes.

Excellent for hummingbirds and butterflies. Use as fresh or dried cutflower. This tough little native is drought tolerant and prefers to be on the dry side of moist and is resistant to drought once well-established.

This Turk's Cap has won the prestigious Lynn Lowery Award from the Native Plant Society of Texas! For more on Greg's introductions from the SFA Gardens website click the "More Info" link below.