Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Hartford

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.

Grow in an average to moist soil. The tall sturdy dense spikes of rich purple flowers of this beautiful native wildflower attract loads of butterflies and pollinators in summer. Prairie Blazing Star is common in the prairies and forests of the central...

Scarlet Sage is the number one most recommended Salvia species for hummingbirds! A perennial in mild winter climates and may reseed under good conditions. Did you know that Salvia is the number one recommended plant for hummingbirds.

The flowering stalks emerge from a rosette of wide medium green foliage on this fibrous rooted native perennial. Starry Rosinweed is a common native of our local pineywoods where it can be seen flowering sometimes as early as March.

In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their return for the following season. The 2-3" flower clusters of the Starburst Penta are borne from spring to fall on this upright to rounded shrub-like tropical perennial...

An excellent cut flower that can last for up to a week in a vase. A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection.

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...

Grown from locally collected seed. The finely textured blue-green to deep green fragrant foliage of Narrow-Leaved Mountainmint is topped by large clusters of tiny light lavender to light pink tubular blooms in summer.

A mulch will also provide many benefits as well. The woody stems of the American Elderberry can be cut back in winter to help promote a fuller and lower plant. Occasionally we pick the large ripe fruit clusters whole as a treat for our chickens.

To learn more about this excellent perennial Salvia read " Mystic Spires Blue is a hot perennial Salvia " by Norman Winters via the Mississippi State University Extension Service. Few Salvias can compete with the ever popular 'Indigo Spires' for pure...

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.

The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit. Pentas are considered to be deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant.

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.

This is a clump forming, taprooted perennial that prefers well-drained soils. Attracts butterflies, bees, and a variety of other pollinators. This is the only species of Echinacea that naturally produces yellow flowers.

In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their return for the following season. An excellent choice for butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators, Pentas flower from spring to frost.

Also known as Blue Snakeweed, Verbena Azul, Cayenne Snakeweed. Blue Porterweed is an intermediate growing Porterweed and has a fairly dense upright habit. Deep indigo 1/4" blooms adorn the long spike-like bloom stems from spring to frost above the rich...

Few pests or diseases seem to bother this member of the mint family. An easy groundcovering perennial, Under the Sea Selfheal produces fat spikes of dark bracts from which tubular purplish pink flowers emerge over an extended period from late spring and...

Masses of tall wispy deep pink spikes are covered by a succession of large pink butterfly-like flowers throughout summer. A tough and hardy, drought tolerant, perennial US Native.

Almost Eden's Purple Lace Sky Flower presented itself as a seedling and we chose it as a new cultivar due to its larger unique flowers. Purple Lace produces flowers that are larger than the species on a vigorous growing plant producing and seemingly non-stop...

Raise Monarch Butterflies in your own backyard! The Monarchs migrate through our area just as the Asclepias begin to awaken in spring, just in time for the females to lay their eggs on the new growth.

An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production. Scarlet Sage is the number one most recommended Salvia species for hummingbirds! A perennial in mild winter climates and may reseed under good conditions.

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

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

Stoke's Aster comes highly recommended and its easy to see why with moderate drought resistance, few pest or disease problems, deer and rabbit resistance and it revels in the heat and sun of our southern summers.

By some this plant may be considered weedy, simply remove any ripening seed pods to prevent unwanted seedlings. Talayote produces clusters of small cream and green milkweed flowers that are held above and among the large heart shaped foliage and can be...

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. Rounded clusters of raspberry colored buds open to 2" long tubular, nectar rich, raspberry wine colored flowers in summer.

Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com A new Buddleja color from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at JC Raulston Arboretum. In some states and counties Buddleia's are considered invasive, please check with your local state offices...