Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Durham

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

Earlier flowering in the Southeast and later flowering as you move northward. Rounded clusters of raspberry colored buds open to 2" long tubular, nectar rich, raspberry wine colored flowers in summer.

The 2-3" flower clusters of the Starburst Penta are borne from spring to fall on this upright to rounded shrub-like tropical perennial that is often grown as an annual. In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their...

The flowers are richly fragrant with an aroma reminiscent of honey. It is known to have escaped in several other states - California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and others along the eastern half of the US.

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...

Deadhead Selfheal to help extend the flowering season. Few pests or diseases seem to bother this member of the mint family. Selfheal can be used to good effect spilling over walls or even in containers if you feel you need to contain it.

Blue Mistflower is a rhizomatous colonizing native perennial that may be best suited to naturalistic settings or among larger growing plants as a tall groundcover. Images were taken at Allen Acres B and B, Pitkin, Louisiana.

Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. For more information see our Coral Honeysuckle Growing Guide . Austin University and was selected and collected by one of the students there for its non-stop show.

Snow Queen Passionflower is a vigorous, hardy, and exceptionally free-flowering Riverside hybrid created by Myles Irvine of the UK that can be enjoyed in gardens or as a container plant.

Scarlet Sage is the number one most recommended Salvia species for hummingbirds! A tender perennial in mild winter climates often grown as annual elsewhere. A.k.a. Texas Sage, Scarlet Salvia, Tropical Sage.

Excellent deer resistance. Drought tolerant once well-established but it does enjoy average moisture. A clump forming native that flowers from late spring through mid-summer and sometimes into fall.

The Texas Coneflower is found only in Louisiana and SE Texas. A choice native coneflower, the Texas Coneflower produces 3-5" bright golden yellow daisies that are borne singly, or in small clusters of up 5 flowers, and are held on sturdy upright stems...

The USDA Plants database offers 11 synonyms for Phyla nodiflora but are generally variations of Lippia incisa, Lippia nodiflora , and Lippia reptans . Found naturally throughout much of the southern half of the US from east to west.

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 naturally sprawling vine-like shrub can easily be pruned to produce a dense mass of foliage and flowers. Train it on a trellis or other support to produce a small-medium sized fragrant evergreen vine.

Provide Moonbeam Coreopsis with good drainage and medium to low moisture. Moonbeam Coreopsis may slowly spread by rhizomes. Drought tolerant and deer resistant. Deadheading will help ensure a fall repeat.

Like the native Maypop Passionflower, Incense readily spreads by rhizomes. The deep purple 3-4", richly fragrant exotic looking flowers are produced throughout the growing season on this vigorous Passionvine with medium green foliage.

Perennial Verbenas make wonderful additions to the butterfly garden providing nectar even in late winter for early visitors. Use Pink TapienVerbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket.

A slowly spreading clump former that prefers average moisture. Attracts pollinators. The non-fading, dark daisies of this easy perennial are held above and among the fine dark green foliage.

This is a vigorous and disease free and drought tolerant spreading to upright deciduous shrub or small tree that attracts hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators. Removing spent flowers and seed heads will promote the production of wave after...

It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. On a recent trip to west Texas we saw a Coral Vine that must have had 50 or more butterflies on one plant! Rose of Montana is considered invasive in some regions, please...

Photos courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Lo' and Beholdtm Pink Micro Chip is a sterile selection so it does not spend its energy producing seed but instead produces an endless display of nectar rich flowers.

It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.

Augusta Duelberg Mealycup Sage is larger growing than the ones found at most nurseries and will top out at about 30"H and wide. An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production.

When the Liatris are in flower, few plants can compete for the multitude of butterflies and other pollinators that they attract. Grow in an average to moist soil. The large bulb-like corm will produce several flower spikes once mature.

According to one Oklahoma gardener who was kind enough to bring this to our attention, when the flowers are used in bouquets the fragrance is enough to fill a room at times. Adaptable to a variety of soil conditions.