Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Lafayette

In mild winter climates, like zone 9 and 10, they can remain evergreen and will flower for most of the year. 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...

We hope that you enjoy as much as we do! Interestingly this is another plant, along with Porterweed, that I consistently find when visiting butterfly conservatories. Duranta's are tropical to subtropical evergreen shrubs but can easily be trained into...

An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production. It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return year after year.

In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species, or cultivar. Like the native Maypop Passionflower, Incense readily spreads by rhizomes.

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Where not hardy, heat and humidity tolerant Pentas make wonderful annuals for gardens or containers. The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit.

A good choice for a minty tea. Tolerant of wet and dry soil conditions. Grown from locally collected seed. An excellent choice for native pollinators like bees and butterflies. The finely textured blue-green to deep green fragrant foliage of Narrow-Leaved...

Coronation Gold, a hybrid Achillea , was named in honor of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. This is an award winning perennial and has received the Royal Horticulture Society's Award of Garden Merit.

This Passionvine along with many of Myles Irving's Riverside hybrids appear to rarely produce fruit and are often triploid to tetraploid in nature. Snow Queen Passionflower is a vigorous, hardy, and exceptionally free-flowering Riverside hybrid created...

This exciting new day-length neutral and thusly free flowering Black-Eyed Susan was discovered at Dupont Nursery near Plaquemine, Louisiana and is sure to bring in the butterflies and pollinators as well as providing color all summer.

Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Miss Pearl is the latest release in the Miss series from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University where he has developed sterile Buddlejas with greater flower power...

1-1/2" bright orange-yellow daisies top this diminutive and durable dwarf Coreopsis in late spring and early summer. Provide Mouse-Eared Tickseed with average moisture and good drainage in average garden soils for best results.

Flowers from late spring to frost and is adored by Hummingbirds. A larger flowering form of the common Batface Cuphea which produces 1-1/2" long red tubular blooms that end with a purple bat-like face that is accented by the bright red 'ears'.

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

Remove spent flower heads before seeds ripen if reseeding is a concern. 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.

Periodic removal of spent flower spikes will help keep your Scarlet Sage looking great and flowering throughout the growing season. Somewhat drought resistant once well-established but will grow and flower better under average water conditions.

For these areas consider some of the sterile or near sterile hybrids like " Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip ". Deadheading spent flowers will help to promote continuous flowering but this is not required.

An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production. It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return year after year.

Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination by these amazing flyers. Augusta Duelberg Mealycup Sage is larger growing than the ones found at most nurseries and will top out at about 30"H and...

The bracts are probably more showy than the flowers but the flowers attract loads of pollinators including bees and small butterflies. Clustered Mountainmint is one of our favorites to pick and smell as we walk through the garden.

Grassleaved Goldenaster is a durable native that makes a nice groundcover under larger perennials and naturalistic settings including meadows and roadside plantings. This is a rhizomatous and thus spreading native perennial common to much of the Pineywoods...

The flowering stalks emerge from a rosette of wide medium green foliage on this fibrous rooted native perennial. It is quite drought tolerant once established and seems to prefer well-drained soils.

An unusually large-growing variety. Huge scarlet pine-cone-like blooms to 8 inches long are borne in summer atop the large deep green tropical foliage.

Jamaicensis and S. Also known as Blue Snakeweed, Verbena Azul, Cayenne Snakeweed. An excellent choice for butterfly gardens or in containers. Frantzii , along with other species, are repellent to some species of ants which prevents nectar robbing.

And the more branches you create the more Candelabra's you'll get to enjoy! With a protective mulch in mild winter climates the Candlestick Tree may return from the roots to grace your garden the next season but it is not always reliable.

Attracts butterflies and a host of other pollinators. Their only downfall is wet soggy winter soils which could cause rot. In the northern most portions of its range, zones 5 and 6, it should be provided with a deep winter mulch.

Redwing, Vining Maple, and Mariposa are among its many names, whatever you choose to call it this rather hardy vine with tropical origins creates quite a show throughout the warmer months of the year with a near continuous display of yellow, orchid-like...