Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Pueblo

Butterfly Bush is considered invasive in some regions, consider sterile selections or deadhead periodically to prevent unwanted seedlings. An excellent choice for butterfly gardens as well as providing nectar for a host of other pollinators including...

There is reported to be sister species, E. In midsummer it produces the fragrant, nectar rich yellow flowers atop sturdy 2-3' high stems. This is a clump forming, taprooted perennial that prefers well-drained soils The Yellow Purple Coneflower or Yellow...

Great for pollinators. The large attractive soft, blue-green foliage makes a nice garden accent and is at its prime in winter and spring. To read more about this "stately coneflower", as Dr. Neil Odenwald puts it, in the Online Plant Guide.com click here...

An easy and sometimes vigorous groundcover or container plant that remains evergreen in mild winter climates. They enjoy moist soils but are somewhat drought resistant once well established.

In order to produce their delicious tangy tropical tasting fruit Passionflowers must be cross-pollinated by another seedling, species, or cultivar. Provide a well-drained soil and a full to mostly sunny position for the best results.

This beautiful perennial wildflower is common to the Pineywoods of western Louisiana and east Texas and needs a well drained soil for best results. This tough and drought tolerant clump forming bulbous native perennial produces rosettes of blue-green...

An excellent cut flower that can last for up to a week in a vase. These seedlings originated from a vigorous native Louisiana population of this beautiful perennial. A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at...

Dracocephalum is moderately drought resistant once well-established and is considered to be deer resistant. It prefers a well-drained soil and may need midday shade in hot summer climates.

Long spikes of deep indigo blue, tubular flowers are borne continuously from spring to frost on this vigorous perennial Salvia. To learn more about this excellent perennial Salvia " Salvia x "Indigo Spires", Indigo Spires Salvia " from the University...

Hopefully this item will be back in stock mid-to-late summer of 2018. Austin University and was selected and collected by one of the students there for its non-stop show. Dan's Everblooming Native Coral Honeysuckle came to us from the good people at Stephen...

Huge 4-6" bright yellow, green-eyed daisies are held on 4-6'+ sturdy stems and produce an extended summer display. One of our favorites! There has been much confusion as to exact parentage/species of this excellent cultivar though many believe that it...

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. An easy to grow and drought tolerant Heirloom plant that is highly treasured. On a recent trip to west Texas we saw a Coral Vine that must have had 50 or more butterflies...

The native Coral Honeysuckle is not an aggressive vine, unlike the white and yellow flowered invasive Japanese Honeysuckle. Major Wheeler produces loads of large clusters of deep red 2" tubular flowers with yellow throats are held above the rich blue-green...

Providing a well-draining site will be key to helping it survive the winter as well as a loose breathable mulch such as pinestraw. It is definitely worth the trip and they have a great Butterfly festival each fall.

Medium to high drought tolerance once established. Attracts butterflies and other pollinators. The Compass Plant is native to much of the central and eastern US. The dark green, deeply dissected foliage of the Compass Plant was used as a compass as the...

Use Cloud Eight Verbena in the garden, landscape, or in container gardens. The dainty nectar rich flowers are visited by bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Clusters of rich purple flowers are produced on sturdy stems atop the medium green foliage from...

Spikes of 2" vivid fuchsia tubular fuzzy flowers emerge from dark colored calyxes and are held atop the dark green, glossy rounded foliage from spring to fall on this compact growing Salvia.

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.

Train it on a trellis or other support to produce a small-medium sized fragrant evergreen vine. Sweetly fragrant clusters of 2", star-like, pure white blooms are produced continuously throughout the summer months against a rich glossy green foliage.

Image courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. The deeply cut, somewhat hairy, medium green foliage and delicate stems give this species a finer overall texture. Cutleaf Coneflower grows across much of the central and eastern US and is a spreading rhizomatous...

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

Porterweeds are likely the number one favorite nectar plant for butterfly gardeners and surely for the butterflies themselves. Another of the smaller varieties creating a dense bush with loads of nectar rich flowers for the butterflies and hummingbirds.

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

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.

Did we mention that it doesn't flop like older cultivars? Stoke's Asters or Stokesia Daisies are durable drought, deer, and rabbit resistant, clump-forming native perennials. It originated to us from one of the people who helped to make it known to gardeners...

Otherwise these are great garden performers that will bring their owners many years of enjoyment with almost no maintenance required. Attracts butterflies and a host of other pollinators.

Deadheading spent flowers will help to promote continuous flowering but this is not required. It is known to have escaped in several other states - California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and others along the eastern half of the US.