Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Fort Lauderdale

Lecompte Vitex is another excellent introduction from noted plant breeder and author Greg Grant. Vitex are great for summer color and their large spikes of colorful flowers attract butterflies and bees.

This compact Buddleia flowers even at a very young age and will continue flowering from spring to frost. The Buzztm series of Butterfly Bushes were developed for their compact habit, large flower spikes, and for their exceptional flower power.

Like other Passionvines, cross-pollination may be required or it may be that like Incense, it too is sterile, and is grown more for its flower production than fruit. The yellow to orange glands also have a strong resemblence to pairs of butterfly eggs...

Considered hardy into zone 7 Indigo Spires Salvia will need a winter mulch anywhere temperatures drop much below about 25 o F in the winter. To learn more about this excellent perennial Salvia " Salvia x "Indigo Spires", Indigo Spires Salvia " from the...

It is a clump forming native perennial with an upright growth habit that generally dies back to the ground in winter. Clusters of tiny, light pink, tubular flowers are encircled by a mass of velvety white, bract-like leaves in mid to late summer.

A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of white fragrant flowers. Ice Chip is the newest introduction in this line of compact, basically sterile Butterfly Bushes.

The nectar rich flowers are adored by larger bees and the foliage is a host to a variety of butterflies. 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...

A durable and reliable US native perennial, Stoke's Aster comes highly recommended and its easy to see why with its moderate drought resistance, few pest or disease problems, deer and rabbit resistance and the fact that it revels in the heat and sun of...

Sweetly fragrant clusters of 2", star-like, pure white blooms are produced continuously throughout the summer months against a rich glossy green foliage. Train it on a trellis or other support to produce a small-medium sized fragrant evergreen vine.

A tightly clump forming perennial, Eared Goldenrod produces loose arching arrays of bright yellow flowers in summer atop sturdy stems. Shade tolerant, clump forming and it attracts a variety of pollinators when in flower.

Also known as the Yellow Orchid Vine, well-established plants are considered somewhat drought resistant once well-established but will grow and flower best under average moisture conditions.

Here in zone 8B they freeze to the ground in most winters and we plant them atop winter growing bulbs like Spanish Bluebells that take their place during the Ruellia's dormant period and as the Bluebells are finishing up the Ruellias are on their way...

A near perfect replacement for lawn grass that provides a burst of brilliant fall color as well. This is a rhizomatous and thus spreading native perennial common to much of the Pineywoods as well as much of the Southeastern US.

Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush is slightly smaller and more compact than Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Butterfly Bush and is less brittle. The blue gray foliage is an added bonus on this new sterile Butterfly Bush or Buddleia.

Incredibly fragrant (considered to be even better than a lilac by some!) rich pink flowers in summer are held above the rich green glossy foliage. Abelias are easily grown, drought, salt, deer, and pest resistant upright to arching evergreen to semi-evergreen...

The sweetly scented foliage gives it its common name. This vigorous native produces masses of black-eyed golden yellow daisies from mid-summer to fall on tall sturdy stems. This Rudbeckia is unusual in that it will grow and flower quite well even under...

Clusters of rich purple flowers are produced on sturdy stems atop the medium green foliage from spring through summer and into fall. The dainty nectar rich flowers are visited by bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

Spikes of fragrant tiny pink flowers emerge from this diminutive Butterfly Bush from early spring through fall. An excellent choice for small spaces, the front of the garden and landscape, as well as in containers where it can bring pollinators of all...

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. Thank you for allowing us to use this image! This Greg Grant introduction produces loads of medium-dark blue spikes of tubular...

Appalachian Mountainmint is native along much of the east coast from Virginia to Florida and west to Mississippi. Deer resistant and somewhat drought resistant once well-established with few pest or disease problems.

Unlike many of the Goldenrods this is a true clump forming perennial that stays where you put it. Large, flat displays of rich yellow flowers are born over an exteded period in summer that lasts until early fall.

3-4" light pink to purplish pink coneflowers with drooping petals are held high above the foliage on sturdy stems. This is a tough and easy pinewoods native plant that is great for butterflies and pollinators.

Vitex are great for summer color and their large spikes of colorful flowers attract butterflies and bees. Large spikes of purple-blue fragrant flowers, reportedly to 18'' long, are borne in summer and are held atop the soft green fragrant foliage.

This is a clump forming, taprooted perennial that prefers well-drained soils. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. A paradoxically yellow flowered purple coneflower with deep sunny yellow ray petals that surround the dark bristly...

Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results. An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production.

Grandiflora syn. Moderately drought tolerant once well established. Pitcheri or Pitcher Sage. Large spikes of deep blue, tubular flowers are born in summer, late summer, and sometimes into fall on this clump forming native perennial wildflower.

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. The tubular, nectar rich flowers of Monardas attract a variety of pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies, and some bees.