Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In District Of Columbia

Easy, drought tolerant once established, and virtually pest free. Mountain or Royal Sage produces loose spikes of glowing orange-red tubular flowers in early summer and again in fall, just in time for migrating Hummingbirds.

For excellent info on Elderberry from the Herb Society of America click here . Remember, the Elderberry flowers and fruits on new growth. It is a large growing native deciduous shrub whose cooked fruit and flowers are used to create healthy and delicious...

Vitex have few pests or diseases and are great for butterflies and bees. These durable and easily grown shrubs are basically pest and disease free, are deer resistant, and are moderately salt tolerant.

Like its sister seedling Incense, a diploid and another cross of Passiflora incarnata x P. The flowers of passionvines attract a host of nectar feeders including hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, as well as their foliage playing host to a menagerie of...

To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties Passionvines are the caterpillar host plant for Gulf Fritillary, Variegated Fritillary, Zebra Longwing, Julia, and...

Clusters of tiny, light pink, tubular flowers are encircled by a mass of velvety white, bract-like leaves in mid to late summer. Whiteleaf Mountainmint has a strong minty sage-like fragrance and can be used in place of sage in cooking as well as in the...

An excellent choice for hummingbirds, mixed containers, hanging baskets, and in mass plantings. Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding perennial which blooms from late spring to frost.

This is a durable and slowly spreading native perennial that flowers throughout the summer months. The bracts are probably more showy than the flowers but the flowers attract loads of pollinators including bees and small butterflies.

Rudbeckia texana and R. Texas Coneflower provides us with a medium-sized Rudbeckia that is similar in habit to the stately Giant Coneflower. The Texas Coneflower is found only in Louisiana and SE Texas.

A popular and easy to grow beauty that is now considered to be very rare if not extinct in its native habitat of Mexico. 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...

Wow! Excellent flower power on a vigorous vine, Aphrodite's Purple Nightietm Passion Flower produces an explosion of 3-4" wide flowers composed of purple petals and sepals that are topped by a crown of deep purple, blue, and white filaments.

An award winning Butterfly Bush, Flutterby Petite Tutti Frutti produces wave after wave of fragrant fuchsia colored flowers with a contrasting orange eye in dense spikes from spring to fall.

Perennial Verbenas make wonderful additions to the butterfly garden providing nectar even in late winter for early visitors. A nearly endless procession of vivid, deep bluish-purple flower clusters are born in mass above the low, ferny foliage of this...

Snowy white fragrant flower spikes adorn this medium sized free flowering Butterfly Bush from spring to fall. Miss Pearl is the latest release in the Miss series from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University where he has...

This exciting Salvia hybrid has wonderful flower power and often begins flowering in winter in the greenhouse and will cycle in and out of bloom for most of the growing season. If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider...

Early Bird Gold was selected from a stand of Goldstrum Rudbeckia and inherits all of that award winning perennial's attributes yet it flowers continuously over a much longer period.

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

Large, flat displays of rich yellow flowers are born over an exteded period in summer that lasts until early fall. Flat-Top or Shiny Goldenrod provides a perfect landing platform for pollinators while they enjoy its rich nectar and pollen.

Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar and then carry it to the next flower. This is also one of the most reliably cold hardy Passionvines with foliage remaining evergreen...

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.

Goldstrum Rudbeckia is an award winning selection of our native Rudbeckia fulgida which is native to much of the eastern and central United States. This is an easy, durable, and reliable drought tolerant and deer resistant perennial for any sunny border.

Tolerant of wet and dry soil conditions. A good choice for a minty tea. An excellent choice for native pollinators like bees and butterflies. Grown from locally collected seed. This tough low native seems to remain where you put it creating a clump forming...

'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, VA.

We often see a few flowers on our vines in the garden in winter but the main show is in spring with flowers continuing on and off often until fall. Few other woody vines can provide the long flowering show that this wonderful native can provide as well...

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 to help promote new growth and flower production.

Buddleias are excellent for attracting pollinators including butterflies, bees, and other garden beneficials! Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing.

We generally wait until the fruits become yellow (in yellow fruited cultivars) and wrinkled and have fallen from the vine. Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar and then...