Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Minnesota

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...

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Deadhead spent flowers to extend the flowering season well into fall. The rich green deeply cut foliage is disease and pest resistant. 'Autumn Sun' is a synonym of 'Herbstonne'. Appreciates ample moisture when in growth.

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.

Lecompte Vitex is noted for its extra large 8-12" spikes of purple-blue flowers that are born from late spring to fall. Vitex are adaptable to a wide variety of soil types and are considered to be drought tolerant enough to be suitable for Xeric gardens.

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

A truly dwarf Buddleia producing loads of fragrant blue spikes on a low mounding plant that only grows to 2-1/2'!Of 107 Butterfly Bushes on trial at Wisley Gardens Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Butterfly Bush was the#2vote getter.

The Maypop Passionvine or Passion Flower produces a summer long display of 2-3" wide white, lavender, and purple exotic flowers that are held against medium green tropical foliage.

This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. Porterweed is known to reseed particularly in mild winter climates. 1/2" salmon pink blooms adorn the long spike-like bloom stems from spring to frost.

In mild winter climates, like zone 9 and 10, they can remain evergreen and will flower for most of the year. For sheer flower power and durability it is hard to beat the Dwarf Mexican Petunias! These reliable perennials lend themselves to use as a groundcover,...

White, fragrant bloom spikes reaching 16", are held against the green, velvety foliage. Butterfly Bush is considered invasive in some areas, please consult your local state offices before purchasing.

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.

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. Flat-Top or Shiny Goldenrod provides a perfect landing platform for pollinators while they enjoy its rich...

Remove seed pods to prevent unwanted seedlings as it can be difficult to eradicate once it is well-established. This is a drought resistant, taprooted, twining, native, perennial vine, expect the top to die-back in the northern portions of its range.

Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Miss Violet is another excellent introduction from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University.

Perennial Verbenas make wonderful additions to the butterfly garden providing nectar even in late winter for early visitors. Use Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket.

A paradoxically yellow flowered purple coneflower with deep sunny yellow ray petals that surround the dark bristly rounded cone. Paradoxa , is a taprooted native that is typically found in or near the shallow soils of rocky glades and prairies as well...

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.

What a discovery that must've been! Spreads and slowly creates a dense groundcover or as a trailing plant in containers. Verbena's are cool season growing perennials and so that is when fertilize should be applied.

It is also on the long list of plants that are larval hosts to the Gray Hairstreak Butterfly. Appalachian Mountainmint is native along much of the east coast from Virginia to Florida and west to Mississippi.

6-8" spikes of lavender-pink flowers that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees are borne in summer. The Lace-Leaf Vitex is considered by many to be the most hardy of the Chaste Trees.

The native Coral Honeysuckle is not an aggressive vine, unlike the white and yellow flowered invasive Japanese Honeysuckle. The flowers are followed by showy translucent orange to red 3/8" berries.

Provide a winter mulch where marginally hardy or enjoy this free flowering, lightly fragrant vine as a container plant or annual where not hardy. The extra large, up to 5" wide, long lasting flowers of the Star of Surbiton Passion Flower are composed...

Dense flat topped clusters that can be 6" or more across are composed of tightly packed, tiny, dark golden yellow daisies. Coronation Gold, a hybrid Achillea , was named in honor of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.

Drought tolerant, deer resistant, and reliable. A must have perennial! Early Bird Gold Rudbeckia produces wave after wave of bright golden yellow, 3-4" daisies from late spring to fall on a nicely branching plant.

Provide Peach Perfectiontm Abelia with a full to mostly sunny position in most any well-drained soil for the best color and optimum flowering. The clusters of long-lasting sepals darken to contrasting shades of pink adding to the continuous show of color...

Drought tolerant, deer resistant, and reliable. A must have perennial! Early Bird Gold Rudbeckia produces wave after wave of bright golden yellow, 3-4" daisies from late spring to fall on a nicely branching plant.