Cut Flower Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In Virginia

Petiole 1-3 cm, glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 3.5-12(-18) 1.5-7(-10) cm, adaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, abaxially villous, base cuneate to subrounded, apex usually acute to acuminate.

Its use has also been adopted by Ayurvedic medicine. It is native to eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwest United States.

However it is commonly cultivated in gardens away from its native range. * This is the red flowered form. * Primula denticulata , commonly known as Drumstick primrose or the Himalayan Primrose is a species of primrose that is native to moist alpine regions...

It is native to Europe and western Asia . * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle . * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later in the summer.

* Hesperis matronalis grows 100 cm or taller, with multiple upright hairy stems. Typically the first year of growth produces a mound of foliage and flowering occurs the second year, plants are normally biennials but a number of races can be short lived...

It has sharply-toothed, lance-shaped green leaves and bears large, showy, bright golden yellow trumpet-shaped flowers . The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock .

* The plant reaches 2 to 4 ft (0.61 to 1.2 m) in height, with many branches, and a spread of about 2.5 ft (0.76 m). Cultivated varieties include orange-red, pink, salmon, red, white, and scarlet, and include bi-colored varieties.

* Plants can be grown as an informal hedge. * The lilac is a very popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks, because of its attractive, sweet-smelling flowers, which appear in early summer just before many of the roses and other summer flowers come...

* It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world as an introduced species and sometimes a garden escapee. * The inflorescence is generally a large, solitary flower head which may exceed 8 centimeters in diameter.

Raised beds should be considered in areas with poorly-drained soils. * No serious insect or disease problems. It is a member of the Gerbera genus . Start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost date.

It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions – growing to 60 centimetres (24 in) (less in poor soils), and producing pale lilac and white flowers in spring. * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The leaf tops are gray-green and the bottoms are white with hairs. The names catnip and catmint are derived from the intense attraction most cats have towards them. Edible Uses: Condiment; Tea.

It is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, and naturalized in other parts of North and South America as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia. * The flowers of all Cosmos attract birds and butterflies, including the monarch...

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .

It grows in dense clusters along stream banks, thickets, and ditches, flowering from mid- to late summer. The leaves are opposite on the square stems, 6–15 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, and dark green with reddish leaf veins and a coarsely toothed margin;...

Mathew (l.c. 110), this species is said to have originated in Kashmir. Crocea is a beautiful and stately plant, probably the most striking of all spurias. It thrives well in heavy loam in England (Bowley, l.c.).

Pseudocamellia, which see, but with longer leaves, smaller flowers (in June and July), and petals that are reddish at the base; needs acid soil; native to Japan. * A shrub or tree, resembling S.

* The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics . * Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico.

It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum ). * Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub.

It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early fall. * Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America .

* Siberian Wallflower makes a dramatic vibrant addition to a wildflower meadow. * Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial...

The leaf tops are gray-green and the bottoms are white with hairs. The names catnip and catmint are derived from the intense attraction most cats have towards them. Edible Uses: Condiment; Tea.

However it is commonly cultivated in gardens away from its native range. * Primula denticulata , commonly known as Drumstick primrose or the Himalayan Primrose is a species of primrose that is native to moist alpine regions and Afghanistan to China .

It is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, and naturalized in other parts of North and South America as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia. * The flowers of all Cosmos attract birds and butterflies, including the monarch...

* Bright yellow flowers.

* Sakaki ( Cleyera japonica ) is a flowering evergreen tree or shrub native to warm areas of Japan , Korea and mainland China . It can reach a height of 10 m. * The small, scented, cream-white flowers open in early summer, and are followed later by berries...

Spiraea chinensis Maximowicz, Trudy Imp. Zhong hua xiu xian ju Shrubs 1.5–3 m tall. S.-Peterburgsk. Branchlets arched, red-brown and yellow tomentose initially, black-brown and glabrous when old; buds ovoid, 2–5 mm, with several scales, pubescent,...