Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Seattle

Where not hardy, heat and humidity tolerant Pentas make wonderful annuals for gardens or containers. Rich red 3" flowers clusters. An excellent choice for butterfly and hummingbird gardens that will flower from summer until frost.

The flowers attract loads of butterflies as well as other pollinators and Gregg's Mist Flower flowers most heavily beginning in late summer and lasting through fall. Gregg's Mist Flower is native to southern and western Texas as well as southern New Mexico...

Considered by some to be root hardy in zone 9 with protection. Tall spikes of dark golden yellow 1" blooms are born in summer and fall on an upright growing shrub. Called Popcorn Cassia because when brushed or crushed the foliage emits the wonderful fragrance...

This vigorous native produces masses of black-eyed golden yellow daisies from mid-summer to fall on tall sturdy stems. A good choice for the back of the border. A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine...

Talayote produces clusters of small cream and green milkweed flowers that are held above and among the large heart shaped foliage and can be found in flower from summer and into early fall attracting a host of smaller pollinators.

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. It flowers all summer and fall. On a recent trip to west Texas, we saw what must have been over 50 butterflies on one vine! Coral Vine is considered invasive in some...

An old and reliable perennial Verbena that produces large clusters of deep purple blooms from spring to fall. The trailing Verbenas are one of the earliest flowering perennials in our gardens and provide the early hummingbirds and butterflies with plenty...

The large attractive soft, blue-green foliage makes a nice garden accent and is at its prime in winter and spring. Great for pollinators. Most sources disagree on the hardiness of this plant.

1-1/2" bright orange-yellow daisies top this diminutive and durable dwarf Coreopsis in late spring and early summer. An evergreen perennial that slowly develops into a 6-9" high slowly spreading stoloniferous groundcover.

Use Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket. A nearly endless procession of vivid, deep bluish-purple flower clusters are born in mass above the low, ferny foliage of this wonderful free-flowering...

Silver Spires produces medium sized spikes of white flowers that are held against the dark blue-green fragrant foliage. Silver Spires was the top rated white flowered Vitex in trials at Longwood Gardens.

1999 Perennial Plant of the Year. Excellent for butterflies and the birds will enjoy the seedheads in winter. A profusion of dark-eyed golden yellow, 3-5'', daisies are held above the tidy rosette of foliage throughout summer.

The Candlestick Tree does readily reseed, consider removing ripe seed pods to prevent unwanted seedlings. Attracts butterflies as well as serves as a host to Sulphur butterfly caterpillars.

These amazing images were kindly taken and shared with us by Susan Whitney. This exciting Salvia hybrid has wonderful flower power and often begins flowering in winter in the greenhouse and will cycle in and out of bloom for most of the growing season.

A beautiful and eye-catching addition to any garden setting as well as a long lasting cutflower for arrangements. Henry Eilers Sweet Coneflower was discovered in Illinois in a prairie remnant along a railroad.

The image with near raspberry colored foliage is the color Raspberry Wine may take on during fall and winter. The tubular, nectar rich flowers of Monardas attract a variety of pollinators including hummingbirds, butterflies, and some bees.

This is not the same as the original 'Starburst' Penta cultivar. Give it a rich fertile soil and periodic water during dry spells. Where not hardy, heat and humidity tolerant Pentas make wonderful annuals for gardens or containers.

We have to say thank you to Marc Pastorek and C.C. Richmond for sharing this with us! Nitida have sometimes been grouped as one species. A good nectar and pollen source for pollinators.

The beautiful flowers provide nectar and pollen to a variety of garden beneficials including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Considered hardy well into zone 8 it is still best to select a protected site and provide a breathable winter mulch.

This a very easy and strong-growing, perennial vine with beautiful glossy leaves, exotic white and purple flowers, which are followed by large purple, rounded fruit, about the size of tangerines, with a nice flavor.

If you have purchased Liatris squarrosa from us in the past it was in fact actually Liatris tenuis . With that ID, we can now finally add Beauregard parish to the record books! But after taking a second look at herbarium specimens this is definitely the...

The blue gray foliage is an added bonus on this new sterile Butterfly Bush or Buddleia. Spikes of deep purplish blue, nectar rich flowers are produced from summer to fall and attract butterflies and a menagerie of other garden beneficials.

Once again we should all thank Greg Grant for another excellent selection! This tough little sage was found growing in a cemetery with no care except for the periodic weed eater for pruning.

Their only downfall is wet soggy winter soils which could cause rot. In the northern most portions of their range, zones 5 and 6, they should be provided with a deep winter mulch. Stokesia Daisy is one of those plant it and forget it perennials, once...

Did we mention that it doesn't flop like older cultivars? It originated to us from one of the people who helped to make it known to gardeners and landscapers everywhere, noted horticulturist and author Gail Barton of Meridian, Mississippi.

In the wild Scarlet Beebalm is most common in the Northeastern and Northcentral US and may prefer afternoon shade in the hotter portions of its range. A clump forming, slowly spreading winter deciduous perennial that enjoys moist but well-drained soils...

Dense flat topped clusters that can be 6" or more across are composed of tightly packed, tiny, dark golden yellow daisies. The flower clusters make great resting places for tired pollinators.