Hummingbird Plants Plants For Sale In Kansas

For more about Dawn, the wonderful arboretum, and Stephen F Austin's excellent horticultural program click here. Moderately drought tolerant once well-established. A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen...

Yellow Barleria makes for an easy to grow container plant in areas where frosts and freezes are common providing sunny color during the cool days of winter as well as summer. The nearly 2" wide flowers attract butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.

Towards the end of summer the dark pods will split open showing off the bright, shiny red-orange beans that add color to the fall and winter garden. We cannot recommend the use of the this plant as an herb but the Native Americans used the roots and seeds...

Carrying a Red Buckeye seed in your pocket was considered good luck, although the seeds are considered poisonous so this may not be a good practice in reality. Young plants seem prone to leaf drop well before the end of summer and this is not necessarily...

The Giant Turk's Cap is considered to be a hybrid, either man-made or natural, and has been passed around for many years and is now known by a variety of common names including: Mazapan, Sleepy Hibiscus, Sleepy Wax Mallow, Turk's Cap Mallow, Cardinal's...

Maroon and white 1" tubular blooms arch from a spike of reddish-maroon bracts. An upright to sprawling perennial becoming full and dense with age.

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.

This is considered to be the normal color form for the species. This tough plant is moderately salt tolerant making it a good choice for coastal plantings. Mexican Sage bush is a drought tolerant, sun and heat loving reliable clump forming perennial that...

A new color twist on and old favorite. 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.

Produces masses of deep red bottlebrush blooms in summer. A dwarf and compact bottlebrush creating an evergreen mound to only 3'H and 5'W.

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. The tubular flowers are a treat for hummingbirds and larger butterflies.

Attracts hummingbirds as well as larger butterflies. Purple Sage, or Autumn Purple Sage is a vigorous easy to grow species from south of the border with a mounding to upright habit.

A compact growing selection of Red Ruellia, Ragin' Cajun makes a great filler in mixed containers or as a perennial in the garden. Ragin' Cajun Red Ruellia was discovered and introduced by Dupont Nursery in the heat and humidity of southern Louisiana...

In freeze free climates the Japanese Glory Bower can grow into an 8-12' high shrub with flowers on every branch. Japonicum are seemingly hairless and somewhat rough or scabrous to the touch and are significantly larger.

Excellent for attracting bees. An easy and reliable native perennial. The Fall Obedient Plant will readily spread by rhizomes creating a mass of sturdy, 3-4' stems. This is the latest flowering Physostegia that we grow.

The Giant Turk's Cap is considered to be a hybrid, either man-made or natural, and has been passed around for many years and is now known by a variety of common names including: Mazapan, Sleepy Hibiscus, Sleepy Wax Mallow, Turk's Cap Mallow, Cardinal's...

Hamelia is a Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection.

An evergreen shrub in its native habitat it can easily be enjoyed as a container plant for a lightly shaded patio. If you know this cultivar or species please feel free to contact us.

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.

Removal of seed clusters will help to promote repeat flowering and this is true of most Honeysuckles that may produce fruit. Small enough for containers and small trellises and short fences.

The spikes can reach 18" high and are shaped very similarly to a Chinese pagoda with flowers opening continuously over a period of weeks. All three have similar growth habits and are will slowly spread by runners but never seem to be invasive or overly...

Autumn Sage is an easy and drought resistant shrub-like and generally evergreen perennial native to southwestern North America. Some sources suggest that no fertilizer is required or desired once established.

Cypress Vine is an annual member of the Morning Glory family. Few other manageable vines can compete when it comes to sheer flower power! This is an easy to grow vine that dies to the ground in winter in the northern parts of its range and readily returns...

Members of the Coffee or Madder family, Rubiaceae, the Manettias do best in well drained, preferably acid soils. For a hardy perennial vine, check out its cousin the Firecracker Vine , Manettia cordifolia .

Sierra San Antonio Sage creates a pastel peachy colored effect from a distance. Microphylla and S. Salvia x jamensis is a hybrid of S. An excellent choice for Hummingbird gardens! This is a heat and sun loving as well as moderately drought tolerant perennial...

An excellent and easy hybrid Cuphea that flowers nearly non-stop from spring through fall. Attracts Hummingbirds. In the portion of its range where freezes occur it can be grown as an annual or if protected with a mulch it is generally reliably perennial...

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. Arching loose spikes of dangling orange-red, 1" long tubular flowers are born over an extended period in summer...