Hummingbird Plants Plants For Sale In Boise City

For more about Dawn, the wonderful arboretum, and Stephen F Austin's excellent horticultural program click here. A tough and durable S Florida native that can be grown as a perennial in the northern parts of its range.

Anise or Brazilian Sage, Salvia guaranitica, is an upright growing perennial that may flower nearly continuously from spring to frost. Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results.

Welch's article " Autumn Sage: Salvia greggii " from the Texas Cooperative Extension. Autumn Sage is an easy and drought resistant shrub-like and generally evergreen perennial native to southwestern North America.

May reseed under good conditions. Mulch in winter to protect the corm from freeze damage. Needs a rich but sharply draining soil and does well with equal amounts of good quality potting soil and sand or small gravel in containers.

Dr. Welch is a Landscape Horticulturist at Texas A&M. Welch's article " Autumn Sage: Salvia greggii " from the Texas Cooperative Extension. For more information on growing Salvia greggii and its hybrids see Dr. William C.

Anise or Brazilian Sage, Salvia guaranitica , is an upright growing perennial that may flower nearly continuously from spring to frost. Periodic deadheading is not required but may help to keep the plants looking fresher.

Needs a well drained soil. A tough Texas native and is drought tolerant once established. As the name implies, Hummingbirds enjoy the nectar of this shrub. Blooms from mid-summer to fall.

Full sun and excellent drainage generally provide the best results. Bright cherry red, 1" long tubular, two-lipped, nectar rich flowers are produced in spikes beginning in spring and continuing well into fall.

This easy heat and sun loving tropical can be grown as a medium to large arching shrub or hedge, vine or espalier, and can be trained into tree standards. For more information see " Cape Honeysuckle " from Texas A&M's Aggie Horticulture's Ornamentals...

To read more about Pam Puryear's Pink Honeysuckle and many of Greg Grant's other introductions visit the SFA Gardens website or click here . We apologize for any confusion but this is actually an old, likely hybrid, honeysuckle that originated from Pam...

The Red Cardinal Flower is considered by many to be the queen of US wildflowers.This is sometimes a short-lived perennial in garden settings and is more likely a biennial with flowering rosettes often dying after setting seed.

Trumpet Creeper is an excellent choice for hummingbirds and we thought it was appropriate to name this naturally occurring Almost Eden selection after the Ruby Throated Hummingbird.

Coronado Red Hummingbird Mint flowers from late spring to fall and attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and larger bees. Sharp drainage and good air circulation will help to ensure their longevity.

This puts the red flowers up within easy reach of hummingbirds, larger butterflies, and bees. Rio Red Ruellia will easily reach 30-40" high and will make a loose groundcover. The Red Ruellias may reseed on exposed soils but rarely do so in mulched beds.

If it sprawls too much it can easily be pruned back to about halfway or periodic pinching will help to keep it fuller and bushier. It has a naturally upright to sprawling habit and flowers on new growth.

Periodic deadheading will help keep them looking clean as well as helping to extend the flowering season. Also known as Summer Border Phlox or Fall Phlox, it is a hardy clump forming herbaceous perennial found throughout much of the eastern and central...

In areas with cooler summers it can be grown in more sun. In frost free climates as a landscape plant Barleria oenotheroides can reach 6' high and 3-4' wide, it can be pruned after flowering to help maintain a smaller stature if desired.

A light late winter pruning should be all that is necessary when it comes to maintenance. Attracts a wide range of pollinators. Pest, disease, and drought resistant. Texas Pink Skullcap is a low mounding shrub-like perennial with gray green foliage that...

The only real problems it seems to have is being planted too deeply or it may rot if exposed to poor drainage. Deadheading, by cutting the flower stalk all the way back, is said to help promote flowering especially with the repeat flowering Echo types.

Sure to make a statement any where it is utilized this easy to grow tropical will prefer light shade or morning sun outdoors. If you know this cultivar or species please feel free to contact us.

The evergreen, rolled, arching and often twisted foliage of the Red Yucca provides purplish winter tones. A perfect plant for tough spots, Red Yucca is limited in natural distribution to central Texas but has proven cold hardy much farther north of that...

As with any tropical plant that you intend to grow as a die-back perennial, it is always best to establish them in spring and early summer and provide an appropriate winter mulch. Where it does freeze back you can prune the dead out at any time during...

Provide a full to mostly sunny position in a well-drained soil for the best results. Mulberry Jam Salvia is a hybrid discovered in the garden of author and Salvia expert Betsy Clebsch and is thought to be a descendant of Salvia involucrata .

Sky King is a reliably free flowering selection on a vigorous growing upright to spreading, naturally evergreen tropical shrub. This miniature cousin of the Angel's Trumpet is easily enjoyed as a container plant where not hardy.

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.

The Orange Cape Honeysuckle is an easy heat and sun loving tropical that can be grown as a medium to large arching shrub or hedge, vine or espalier, and can be trained into tree standards.

Fuzzy Bolivian Sage is a vigorous perennial Salvia with large deep green tropical looking foliage on a vigorous plant that can reach 4' high by the end of summer. An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production.