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Hungarian Lilac Syringa josikaea
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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 .
  • Germination: 91%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
  • Seeds Per Pound: 44,078
  • Common Name: Hungarian Lilac
  • Species: josikaea
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
New York
Locke
Hungarian Lilac Syringa josikaea
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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 .
  • Quantity: 4.06 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 44,078
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Purity: 99%
  • Species: josikaea
New York
Locke
Wolf\'s Lilac Syringa wolfii
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

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.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 37
  • Crop Year: 1993
  • Species: wolfii
  • Purity: 97%
  • Botanical Name: Syringa wolfii
  • Seeds Per Pound: 35,000
New York
Locke
Wolf\'s Lilac Syringa wolfii
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

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.
  • Lot#: 9301
  • Crop Year: 1993
  • Height: 15ft
  • Genus: Syringa
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 37
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
New York
Locke
Rose of Sharon Hedge
Prices start at : 5.49 USD / each

In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall. Delightful red, white or purple hibiscus-shaped flowers blossom each summer for a lifetime of natural beauty.
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Max Height (feet): 10
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Illinois
Bloomington
Dwarf Josee Reblooming Lilac
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Josee can rebloom up to four times in a season with the most spectacular show in late spring. Shipped: potted. Prefers well-drained soil. Its compact size of only 6' tall makes it perfect for a hedge or specimen planting.
  • Max Height (feet): 6
  • Colors: Pink
  • Zones: 2-9
  • Genus: Syringa 'Josee'
  • Season Color: Spring, Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Orange Glory Butterfly Plant
Prices start at : 6.99 USD / each

Is especially effective in mass plantings -- ground covers, borders, and bed plantings. Few flowers have more decorative value in the summer garden than the Orange Glory Butterfly plant.
  • Max Height (feet): 2
  • Colors: Orange
  • Genus: Asclepias tuberosa
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Zones: 3-10
Illinois
Bloomington
Monarch Butterfly Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts Monarchs and all other butterflies to the garden.
Illinois
Bloomington
Sweet William
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance. Mixed colors only. Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red, pink, white, and...
  • Colors: Dark Red, Pink, Red, White
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Spread: 12"
  • Genus: Dianthus barbatus
Illinois
Bloomington
Black-Eyed Susan
Prices start at : 6.99 USD / each

Grow 2-3' tall. Great cut flower. It blooms from early summer until frost. They are insect and disease free and resistant to drought and deer. Drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummbingbirds, for a rain garden.
  • Spread: 18-24"
  • Genus: Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
  • Colors: Black, Yellow
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
Illinois
Bloomington
Pink Honeysuckle
Prices start at : 4.29 USD / each

This variety is vigorous and dense-growing. You can't beat this radiant pink Honeysuckle for a tall screen of background hedge. The flowers have same fragrance as honeysuckle vines.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Colors: Pink
  • Genus: Lonicera tatarica
  • Spread: 6-8'
Illinois
Bloomington
Firefly Heather
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

In the fall and winter, the foliage is bright red. Grows 18-24'' tall and wide. Firefly Heather has been awarded a winner of Britains prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Genus: Calluna vulgaris 'Firefly'
  • Colors: Pink, Yellow
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
Illinois
Bloomington
3-N-1 Rose of Sharon Tree
Prices start at : 6.00 USD / each

You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different colors: red, white and blue. Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care.
  • Max Height (feet): 10
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Spread: 6-8'
  • Colors: Purple, Red, White
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Illinois
Bloomington
Perennial Collection
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

Includes: 3 each of Black-Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower.
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Genus: Echinacea purpurea & Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Season Color: Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Mixed Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 3.88 USD / each

The Mixed Butterfly Bush is a strong, easy-to-grow plant. We send assorted colors: rich purples, orchid-pinks and lilacs, vibrant reds, and pure whites. We ship sturdy ready to grow plants.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Genus: Buddleia davidii
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Spread: 4-8'
Illinois
Bloomington
Purple Coneflower
Prices start at : 4.49 USD / each

Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers. Drought and deer resistant, attracts butterflies, great cut flower. Purple Coneflowers are practically indestructible because they are sub-zero hardy and withstand heat, grow in dry...
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Colors: Purple
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Genus: Echinacea purpurea
Illinois
Bloomington
Shasta Daisy
Prices start at : 4.99 USD / each

It is an easy to grow perennial that spreads fast. Will bloom again in late summer if spring blossoms are cut off. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July.
  • Genus: Leucanthemum superbum
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Max Height (feet): 30"
  • Spread: 18-24"
Illinois
Bloomington
Arizona Sun Dwarf Gaillardia
Prices start at : 6.49 USD / each

Deer resistant. Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped with yellow. Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun. Winner of the prestigous 2005 Fleuroselect Gold Medal!
  • Max Height (feet): 12-16"
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Genus: Gaillardia aristata 'Arizona Sun'
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Season Color: Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Crownvetch
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Grows so thick, it chokes out even persistent weeds and requires no mowing or care. Lovely pink/white blooms to beautify slopes and problem areas from June through September. Grows 12-24'' tall.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Colors: Pink
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Max Height (feet): 12-24"
  • Genus: Coronilla varia
Illinois
Bloomington
Arizona Red Shades Gaillardia
Prices start at : 5.99 USD / each

Once established requires little care. Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Deer resistant. Perfect for container planting with its full, well-branched, green foliage. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has...
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Spread: 10-12''
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Zones: 3-10
  • Colors: Red
Illinois
Bloomington
Catmint
Prices start at : 5.00 USD / each

Aromatic gray-green foliage. Plant in full sun. Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent.
  • Spread: 24"
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Zones: 3-8
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Season Color: Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Red Royal Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Plant in full to partial sun. This spectacular cultivar of butterfly bush is valued for its intense, deeply colored wine-red flowers. The fragrant, long panicles are showy from June to September and attracts loads of butterflies and hummingbirds.Grows...
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Colors: Red
  • Genus: Buddleia davidii 'Royal Red'
Illinois
Bloomington
Rose of Sharon Hedge
Prices start at : 5.29 USD / each

These hardy, erect-branching shrubs will grow 5-10' tall for an informal privacy screen or can be trimmed for a neat, colorful hedge. These hardy plants are welcome in any landscape.
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Genus: Hibiscus syriacus
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Illinois
Bloomington
Bi-Color Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 5.00 USD / each

Great cut flower. It is an excellent attractant for butterflies and hummingbirds. A breakthrough in color! Bi-color is the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom.
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Spread: 4-6'
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Colors: Orange, Purple, Yellow
  • Genus: Buddleia x weyeriana 'Bicolor'
Illinois
Bloomington
3-N-1 Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of hummingbirds. Great cut flower. Outstanding when planted in full sun. Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet...
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Genus: Buddleia davidii
  • Spread: 4-6'
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Illinois
Bloomington
Bee Insect Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this important natual resource. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts natues's hardest workers to the garden.
Illinois
Bloomington
Scarlet Sage, Cherry Red Sage, Texas Sage, Blood Sage Salvia coccinea
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Cultivated varieties include orange-red, pink, salmon, red, white, and scarlet, and include bi-colored varieties. * 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).
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 353
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
  • Germination: 82%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 394,240
  • Genus: Salvia
  • Height: 12 inches
New York
Locke