Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Huntsville

A tough and showy native wildflower that is surely worthy of a place in any garden. Drought tolerant once well-established but it does enjoy average moisture. Excellent deer resistance.

The flowers of Pentas will attract butterflies and other nectar loving creatures to your gardens throughout summer. An excellent choice for butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators, Pentas flower from spring to frost.

Grown from locally collected seed. Plant several together for the best effect. This beautiful perennial wildflower is found only in the Pineywoods of western Louisiana and east Texas.

Flowers can range from nearly solid burgundy to nearly solid yellow and almost any combination in between. This is a tough and hardy, perennial US Native. Great for smaller pollinators.

To read more about this "stately coneflower", as Dr. Neil Odenwald puts it, in the Online Plant Guide.com click here or the "More Info..." link below. Great for pollinators. The large attractive soft, blue-green foliage makes a nice garden accent and...

If your Dwarf Mexican Petunias get too tall or leggy just cut them back to a few inches above the ground and they will quickly regrow and soon return to flowering. This durable perennial makes a great border, groundcover, or makes a great addition to...

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.

This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. In zone 10 it is likely to be a reliable perennial if not evergreen. I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar...

Sweet Goldenrod is the state herb of Delaware and is has been used to make the medicinal Blue Mountain Tea. The flowers and foliage, fresh or dried, is often used to make a very nice herbal tea, as a mild spice in cooking, and could certainly be used...

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.

Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush makes a great addition to the garden and landscape but this one is compact enough for containers too. Spikes of deep purplish blue, nectar rich flowers are produced from summer to fall and attract butterflies...

The more sunlight they get the fuller the plants tend to be and the more flowers they generally produce. Easy to grow, moderately drought tolerant once well-established, and exceptionally free-flowering.

Image courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. The Cutleaf Coneflower produces 2-4" wide, drooping yellow daisies that are centered by a small dark cone in summer. Rudbeckia's generally attract smaller pollinators with their disc flowers, the tiny flowers that...

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...

The native Coral Honeysuckle is not an aggressive vine, unlike the white and yellow flowered invasive Japanese Honeysuckle. Clusters of deep orange 2" tubular flowers with yellow throats are held above the rich blue-green foliage of this selection of...

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.

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.

Huge flat clusters of tiny white flowers are followed by a heavy crop of shiny black fruit. Periodic removal of older and weaker canes will help to keep them growing vigorously. In the colder winter portions of its range it should planted in spring or...

Provide Ruby Glow Passionflower with a moderately fertile, well-drained soil in a full to partial sun location for the best results. Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar...

Talayote produces clusters of small cream and green milkweed flowers that are held above and among the large heart shaped foliage and can be found in flower from summer and into early fall attracting a host of smaller pollinators.

An easy to grow and drought tolerant heirloom plant. It flowers all summer and fall. It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. This is the selection with the deepest red color, comes from seed collected in southern...

It is considered to be a cross with either P. If it does survive the freezes, it is slow to resprout until soil temperatures have sufficiently warmed in spring. We generally wait until the fruits become yellow (in yellow fruited cultivars) and wrinkled...

Once established requires little care. Great for cut flowers. Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Grows 9-12” tall even in poor soils and is heat tolerant. Deer resistant. Perfect for container planting with its full, well-branched, green foliage.

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.

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.

Similar to Constance Elliot but with larger flowers and improved vigor and disease resistance. This is great for those who love the flowers as the plant has more resources for continuous flowering throughout the growing season.

It is a clump forming native perennial with an upright growth habit that generally dies back to the ground in winter. Somewhat drought resistant once well-established. Grown from locally collected seed.