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Coneflower - Wild - Echinacea purpurea
Prices start at : 6.00 USD / Each

Great spangled fritillaries, swallowtails and more will make great arcs around these showy native flowers, alighting again and again to feast on the abundant nectar in the large cone centers.
  •  Heat or Drought Tolerant
  •  Attracts Bees
  • Season: Summer to fall
  • Zone: 3,4,5,6,7,8
  • Sun: Full sun to partial shade
  • Soil: Regular, well-drained soil
Connecticut
Union
Butterfly Garden Seed Collection
Prices start at : 6.00 USD / Each

(Not all pictured) Annual and perennial seeds. Our selected host species will ensure the next generation of Fritillaries, Swallowtails, Monarchs and more. Blooms summer to frost. Butterflies will flit from one jewel-toned blossom to another, sipping the...
  •  Attracts Bees
  •  Attracts Hummingbirds
  • Lifecycle: Annual
  • Season: Spring to fall
  • Color: Mix of bright jewel tones
  • Sun: Full sun to partial shade
Connecticut
Union
How-How, White-Leafed Passionflower, Passion Vine, Passionfruit
Prices start at : 14.99 USD

Considered by many to be one of the most fragrant Passionvines with a strong gardenia-like perfume emanating from the 2" white flowers that have a purple stripe centered on the frilly corona.
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, fertile, well-drained soils. Allow the soil to become slightly dry between waterings.
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9,10,11
  • Indoor Light: High, Direct sun
  • Grows To: 20-40'H, Smaller in containers
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
Louisiana
Merryville
Attract More Butterflies To Your Garden With Eight Gorgeous Flowers
Next summer, don't forget to plant these flowers and enjoy the hoards of butterflies that won't be able to resist your flower garden.Here are eight gorgeous flowers that are sure to attract more butterflies to your garden.), this hardy perennial will...
Ohio
Willoughby
Native Yellow Passionflower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

It is rhizomatous but is generally not invasive or aggressive. Incarnata but may reach 15'H or more once well-established and particularly so if grown in the shade. Locally in our Pineywoods the Native Yellow Passionvine is typically found in well-drained...
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
  • Grows To: 4-6'H in zones 5-6, to 15'H in 7-10
  • Deer Resistance: Not Normally Bothered
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, AM sun, Part shade, Light shade
Louisiana
Merryville
Native Yellow Passionflower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

It is rhizomatous but is generally not invasive or aggressive. Incarnata but may reach 15'H or more once well-established and particularly so if grown in the shade. Locally in our Pineywoods the Native Yellow Passionvine is typically found in well-drained...
  • Deer Resistance: Not Normally Bothered
  • Grows To: 4-6'H in zones 5-6, to 15'H in 7-10
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
Louisiana
Merryville
May Pop Passion Flower, Passion Vine, Passionflower
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

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.
  • Salt Tolerance: Moderate
  • Grows To: 15-20'H
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Native To / Origin: US
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist to somewhat dry soils.
Louisiana
Merryville
Inspiration Passion Flower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Inspiration Passionflower is a vigorous climbing, evergreen to perennial vine, with medium to dark green foliage. Inspiration Passionvine, like most other root hardy tropicals, should be established in the garden after the danger of frost/freeze has passed...
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Grows To: 15-20'H+
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Native To / Origin: German Gardens - Roland Fischer
  • Deer Resistance: Not likely to be bothered
Louisiana
Merryville
Scarlet Flame Passion Flower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Where not hardy it can be overwintered indoors with sufficient light. This tropical species may overwinter in the warmer portions of zone 8B in the mildest winters with sufficient protection (mulch + east or south exposure) and where it has excellent...
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9B,10,11,(9A? With protection)
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Grows To: 12'-30'H
Louisiana
Merryville
Inspiration Passion Flower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 17.99 USD

Inspiration Passionflower is a vigorous climbing, evergreen to perennial vine, with medium to dark green foliage. Inspiration Passionvine, like most other root hardy tropicals, should be established in the garden after the danger of frost/freeze has passed...
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Native To / Origin: German Gardens - Roland Fisher
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soils.
  • Deer Resistance: Not likely to be bothered
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 8,9,10,11
Louisiana
Merryville
May Pop Passion Flower, Passion Vine, Passionflower
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

This easy to grow perennial native vine can grow to 15-18' each year if given a suitable support but it is also happy to clamber along a fence, trellis, or any other support that it can grasp with its strong tendrils.
  • Salt Tolerance: Moderate
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 6,7,8,9,10,11
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Native To / Origin: US
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
Louisiana
Merryville
Corkystem Passionflower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Passiflora suberosa is difficult to distinguish from Passiflora pallida . MacDougal & Feuillet (Passifloraceae) , or the "More Info from Universities" link below: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4233625/
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 10,11,(9A?,9B?)
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, AM sun, Part shade, Light shade
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Grows To: 4-6'H to 30'H in frost free climates
  • Salt Tolerance: Moderate
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, well-drained, soils. Somewhat drought resistant once well-established.
Louisiana
Merryville
Incense Passionflower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar and then carry it to the next flower. Like the native Maypop Passionflower, Incense readily spreads by rhizomes.
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist to moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soils.
  • Indoor Light: Direct sunlight
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 6,7,8,9,10,11
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Native To / Origin: Garden hybrid - Passiflora incarnata x P. cinccinata
Louisiana
Merryville
Chocolate Lily Is a Wildflower Treat
In other words, not in places where the winters are too cold or too warm and the summers are too hot, though they do need to be kept dry in the summer.lists the species as hardy in USDA zones 9a to 11, but based on what I have read and have seen of the...
California
El Segundo
Atropurpurea Passion Flower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Cross pollinated flowers may produce edible fruit. Listed as a host for the Gulf Fritillary and other Longwings, but when the butterflies have a choice they seem to prefer Incense and the Maypop, at least in our experience.
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Indoor Light: High
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9B,10,11,(9? With protection)
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral
Louisiana
Merryville
Lady Margaret Passion Flower, Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

As tropical as it looks to be the Lady Margaret Passionflower is reported to survive in zone 8B if provided with a protective mulch. Lady Margaret Passionflower is a prolific flowering hybrid that is a showoff throughout the year in frost free conditions.
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Grows To: 6-12'H+, reported to reach 30'+ where winters are mild.
  • Soil & Moisture: Average moist, fertile, well-drained soils. Allow the soil to become slightly dry between waterings.
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9,10,11,(*8B?)
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch R / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
Louisiana
Merryville
Bushes for Butterflies
We have two butterfly bushes in our garden, one purple and one bright pink. It was pretty amazing to have a dozen or more of these lovely butterflies flitting about the garden at the same time.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Guide To Rudbeckia Deadheading – How To Deadhead Black Eyed Susans
Colonies of Black Eyed Susans also provide shelter forare great little habitats for birds, butterflies and bugs, you don't always want all that wildlife right next to your front door or patio.
Ohio
Willoughby
Red Passion Flower, Perfumed Passion Flower, Grape-Leaf Passionvine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Listed as a host for the Gulf Fritillary and other Longwings, but when the butterflies have a choice they seem to prefer Incense and the Maypop, at least in our experience. To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties
  • Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
  • Grows To: 12'-30'H
  • Indoor Light: High
  • Native To / Origin: C America
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral
Louisiana
Merryville
Pansy Pest Problems – Controlling Bugs That Eat Pansies
Keep reading to learn more about the most common pansy plant pests and how to combat bugs that eat pansies.are probably the most prevalent. Because of this, the best way to manage pansies is to introduce natural predators, such as.
Ohio
Willoughby
What\'s That Bug? Junonia coenia, the Common Buckeye
This series of articles will help identify some of the most unusual ones and give you a peek into their lives. However, they do not display a southward migration as the weather changes to fall and winter and they do not breed in the northern part of their...
California
El Segundo
Royalty in the Garden : The Crown Imperial
When you consider the beauty Crown Imperials bring to your garden and the fact that they effectively repel varmints, the price is well worth it.After blooming, the tops die down quite quickly, early enough to be mostly hidden by taller perennials emerging...
California
El Segundo
Butterfly Gardening In Zone 5: Hardy Plants That Attract Butterflies
Butterflies are extremely susceptible to pesticides. Think plants for butterflies won't survive in your cooler zone 5 region? Mix annuals in with perennials.Annuals that can be tucked in amongst the above perennials include:These are only partial lists.
Ohio
Willoughby
Showy Milkweed Seeds
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / (P) Pkt of 100 seeds

A pollinator magnet you simply must grow in your sunny garden, it is a native American perennial with so many merits, you will wonder how you ever got by without it! Showy Milkweed is a stout, well-branched plant, airy and beautifully textured.
  • Resistance: Cold Hardy, Heat Tolerant, Humidity Tolerant, Pest Resistant, Deer Resistance, Disease Resistant, Drought Tolerant
  • Habit: Upright
  • Zone: 3 - 9
  • Plant Width: 24 in - 2 ft 6 in
  • Item Form: (P) Pkt of 100 seeds
  • Bloom Color: Light Pink, Purple
South Carolina
Hodges
Tithonia: A Winner In The Garden
In fact, it always seems to do best during hot, dry summers. Jessica Walliser Every summer, I'm amazed at the diversity of pollinators that utilize certain plants in my landscape. This year alone, we've seen eastern black swallowtails, tiger swallowtails,...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
How to Identify Bulbs
With one, two or more noses, these bulbs are daffodils. Bulbs with two or more points are said to have double or triple noses. Immature sizes and the complete absence of covering on some bulbs.
California
Santa Monica
The Care of Passionflower Vines
Root-knot nematodes, which leave knotty galls on the passionflower's roots, may be problematic in sandy soils because they are more mobile in sand than in heavy soils such as clay.
California
Santa Monica