Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Illinois

Huge, conicle, bright pink bloom spikes can reach 18" long and 4" wide at the base! An excellent choice for butterfly gardens. Butterfly Bushes are often intensely fragrant on summer evenings.

Provide a well-drained soil and a full to mostly sunny position for the best results. Pollinated flowers are followed by round passion fruit that ripen to yellow and contain a tangy tropical tasting clear flesh that surrounds each of the small black inedible...

Found naturally throughout much of the southern half of the US from east to west. A low growing member of the Verbena family Frogfruit makes a beautiful, easy groundcover that is covered by tiny heads of dainty, nectar filled white flowers from late spring...

Coronation Gold, a hybrid Achillea , was named in honor of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. If drainage is an issue use a sandy gravelly soil as this drought resistant yarrow makes an easy container plant.

The Winter Cassia may freeze to the ground in the northern portions of its range but it is quick to return in spring. Be sure to consult your state and local agriculture offices before planting.

Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing. Photos courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to...

To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties We have offered this plant under the name of White Passionvine for many years.

Porterweeds are likely the number one favorite nectar plant for butterfly gardeners and surely for the butterflies themselves. For more information see the research paper " Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent...

Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing. Photos courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com The small size lends Ice Chip to the perennial border, smaller spaces, and containers...

Inspiration Passionvine, like most other root hardy tropicals, should be established in the garden after the danger of frost/freeze has passed and soil temperatures have begun to warm.

This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. 1/4" soft red blooms adorn the long spike-like bloom stems from spring to frost.

The Flutterby Petite Tutti Fruitti Pink Butterfly Bush was selected as a Louisiana Super Plant by the LSU Agcenter in 2014. Wave after wave of fragrant blue to blue-purple flowers with a contrasting orange eye are produced in dense spikes from spring...

In some states and counties Buddleia's are considered invasive, please check with your local state offices before purchasing. Miss Molly has deep magenta fragrant flowers that are born in elongating conical clusters on this wonderful new Butterfly Bush...

The Snow Queen Passionflower is a host to the Gulf Frittilary Butterfly and will most likely serve as a host for other butterfly species as well. This Passionvine along with many of Myles Irving's Riverside hybrids appear to rarely produce fruit and are...

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...

In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their return for the following season. Great for hot sunny positions but will also tolerate part sun as well.

Duranta's are tropical to subtropical evergreen shrubs but can easily be trained into medium-sized tree standards. We hope that you enjoy as much as we do! The Duranta can easily be overwintered indoors as a container plant where it is provided with direct...

In some states and counties Buddleia's are considered invasive, please check with your local state offices before purchasing. Spikes of deep violet, nectar rich, fragrant flowers are borne all summer on this vigorous yet compact Butterfly Bush.

This is a durable and slowly spreading native perennial that flowers throughout the summer months. Clustered Mountainmint is one of our favorites to pick and smell as we walk through the garden.

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. Most sources disagree on the hardiness of this plant.

Savanna or Appalachian Mountainmint has nicely fragrant, medium green foliage and is considered to be one of the better Mountainmints for garden settings as it is not as prone to spreading by rhizomes.

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

Few other woody vines can provide the long flowering show that this wonderful native can provide as well as attracting loads of Hummingbirds. Beautiful deep red to coral, yellow throated tubular blooms are born from spring to fall.

This member of the mint family is easy to establish and requires little care once established in the garden as a groundcover beneath larger perennials or as a component of the meadow or prairie.

Removing spent flowers and seed heads will promote the production of wave after wave of new flowers throughout the summer and into fall. Vitex are adaptable to a wide variety of soil types and are considered to be drought tolerant enough to be suitable...

May produce yellow ripening to orange tangy fruit if cross-pollinated. The Star of Surbiton Passionflower is definitely a caterpillar host for the Gulf Frittilary butterfly and will probably prove to be a host for additional species.

This is a durable and slowly spreading native perennial that flowers throughout the summer months. Clustered Mountainmint is one of our favorites to pick and smell as we walk through the garden.