Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Lakewood

Provide ample sunlight and good drainage. Flowers the first year! Echinacea or Purple Coneflowers are beautiful and hardy, clump forming fibrous rooted or taprooted North American native perennials that attract butterflies and other pollinators.

Elderberry was selected as the 2013 Herb of the Year by the International Herb Society. It is best to plant at least two for cross pollination and to bear the heaviest crops. For excellent info on Elderberry from the Herb Society of America click here...

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 species is from Eurasia Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. Deep blue tubular flowers are held on spikes at the ends of the narrow Rosemary like foliage in summer.

Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing. Photos courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of lilac colored,...

In our area it flowers at the same time as Slender Blazing Star, Liatris acidota , and they make nice companions in the meadow or a garden setting. It gets the name Shiny Goldenrod from its shiny foliage.

We generally wait until the fruits become yellow (in yellow fruited cultivars) and wrinkled and have fallen from the vine. This is also one of the most reliably cold hardy Passionvines with foliage remaining evergreen in the mildest 8B winters but dying...

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...

Rudbeckia's generally attract smaller pollinators with their disc flowers, the tiny flowers that make up the 'cone' on a cone flower. The Cutleaf Coneflower produces 2-4" wide, drooping yellow daisies that are centered by a small dark cone in summer.

Fringed Twinevine is fairly drought resistant once well-established. Climbing Milkweed is a vigorous vine easily reaching 15' under good conditions. It produces large clusters of white flowers sometimes tinged with pink or purple that attract a variety...

Provide a full sun location and a well drained soil for the best results. Rounded clusters of bluish purple flowers are produced from mid spring to early summer and again in fall and butterflies and other pollinators are seemingly unable to resist stopping...

Tolerant of light shade is does flower best in full sun. The silvery grass-like foliage of Narrowleaf Silk Grass could fool anyone to thinking it might actually be a grass but by late summer and fall you can be sure that this is definitely in the aster...

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. The native Coral Honeysuckle is not an aggressive vine, unlike the white and yellow flowered invasive Japanese Honeysuckle. Considered by many to be the best of the red flowered Coral Honeysuckles.

In the northern most portions of its range, zones 5 and 6, it should be provided with a deep winter mulch. 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...

Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Deadheading is not required but removing spent flowers will help the plant look 'cleaner'. Snowy white fragrant flower spikes adorn this medium sized free flowering Butterfly Bush from spring to...

Buddleias or Butterfly Bushes do best where they have good to excellent drainage and prefer a full to mostly sunny position for the best overall health and flowering. Spikes of deep fuchsia buds open to pale pink flowers with an orange eye.

An excellent choice for hummingbirds, mixed containers, hanging baskets, and in mass plantings. A well-drained soil is key to winter survival of the Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea.

To learn more about the beneficial insects that Milkweeds support see our growing guide: Milkweed: Much More than Just a Monarch Host. Solid yellow blooms are borne from spring to fall on this vigorous and fast growing upright perennial.

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

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.

In the warmer parts of zone 8B we find that the larger growing Porterweeds, like Lavender, Coral, and Purple, occasionally return from the roots in late spring if well mulched. " by Gavin Ballantyne and Pat Willmer.

It has been reliably hardy for us here in our zone 8B gardens providing summer long color and nectar for our Ruby Throat Hummingbirds as well as for larger butterflies and larger bees.

Attracts butterflies. Clusters of deep violet-purple flowers emerge from short upright to arching stems in summer and are held above the deep green grass-like foliage of this tough bulbous native perennial wildflower.

Passiflora mooreana was named in honor of Dugald Moore of the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden of Glasnevin, Ireland. In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species,...

Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. Bee Balm is a clump forming, slowly spreading perennial well suited to moist, well-drained soils in a sunny garden setting whether in the herb garden or in mass as an informal groundcover.

This is the only species of Echinacea that naturally produces yellow flowers. Attracts butterflies, bees, and a variety of other pollinators. A paradoxically yellow flowered purple coneflower with deep sunny yellow ray petals that surround the dark bristly...

Ripe seeds are utilized by birds. 3-4" wide, yellow, sunflower-like flowers are born on 4-8'H+ sturdy stems over an extended period in summer on this durable, native, clump-forming, tap-rooted perennial.