Poisonous Plant Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In Durham

Panicles grow up to 10'' and feature raspberry and butterscotch yellow florets beginning in summer and lasting into fall. A breakthrough in color! Bi-color is the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom.

Spreading growth to 12". Cultivated varieties include orange-red, pink, salmon, red, white, and scarlet, and include bi-colored varieties. Flower color and size is quite variable. Flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds and butterflies.

Outstanding when planted in full sun. Great cut flower. Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length. Drought and deer resistant.

Plants are hardy to about -25°c. Blooms early to mid season. Seeds should produce mostly blue flowers, but may show some breaks to colors of reds, yellows and bicolors. * Lupinus perennis ( Indian beet , Old maid's bonnets , Blue Lupine, and Sundial...

Verbena's are cool season growing perennials and so that is when fertilize should be applied. What a discovery that must've been! Spreads and slowly creates a dense groundcover or as a trailing plant in containers.

This woody naturally evergreen vine can also be grown as a mounding shrub to 4-6' high. Mascagnia macroptera is not the same as Stigmaphyllon ciliatum . A vigorous and hardy yet well-mannered twining climber the Yellow Butterfly Vine can grow to 15-20'...

Zagreb Coreopsis may slowly spread by rhizomes. Deadheading will help ensure a fall repeat. Provide Zagreb Coreopsis with good drainage and medium to low moisture. Zagreb Coreopsis is slightly more compact than Moonbeam.

Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding perennial which blooms from late spring to frost. A well-drained soil is key to winter survival of the Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea.

These durable and easily grown shrubs are basically pest and disease free, are deer resistant, and are moderately salt tolerant. Lecompte Vitex is another excellent introduction from noted plant breeder and author Greg Grant.

* 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.

Cincinata , Inspiration Passionvine is a triploid and appears to rarely produce fruit which may or may not be of any reliable quality. Like other Passionvines, cross-pollination may be required or it may be that like Incense, it too is sterile, and is...

Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Aromatic gray-green foliage. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent. Plant in full sun.

It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return year after year. Provide full to partial sun with average drainage with average moisture for best results.

Provide Mouse-Eared Tickseed with average moisture and good drainage in average garden soils for best results. 1-1/2" bright orange-yellow daisies top this diminutive and durable dwarf Coreopsis in late spring and early summer.

It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will return year after year. Provide full to partial sun with average drainage and average moisture for best results.

Firefly Heather has been awarded a winner of Britains prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. Grows 18-24'' tall and wide. In late summer, lots of purple-pink flowers open up to make a stunning contrast with the foliage.

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 .

The flowers and foliage, fresh or dried, is often used to make a very nice herbal tea, as a mild spice in cooking, and could certainly be used in potpourris as well (Bonnie fell in love with the fragrance of the dried seed heads!).

The bracts are probably more showy than the flowers but the flowers attract loads of pollinators including bees and small butterflies. Clustered Mountainmint is one of our favorites to pick and smell as we walk through the garden.

With most passionflowers the 5 stamens (pollen producing glands) arch downward once they are ready to release their pollen (and nectar) then on the next flower, hopefully, the 3 stigmas will arch downward once they are ready to receive pollen thus doing...

For more information see an excellent article from JC Raulston Arboretum by clicking here or the "More info from Universities, ..." to the left. Redwing, Vining Maple, and Mariposa are among its many names, whatever you choose to call it this rather hardy...

Coral Honeysuckle or Trumpet Honeysuckle is a native, often evergreen vine that is vigorous and easy to grow as well as easy to control, unlike its white and yellow Japanese cousin.

In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure their return for the following season. An excellent choice for butterfly and hummingbird gardens that will flower from summer until frost.

It is also used in treating kidney diseases. It thrives in full sun in ordinary garden soil. All spikes of purple flowers appear in July and August. Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies.

This is a solid yellow flowered seed grown strain that we have selected. The disc flowers that compose the 'cone' attract a variety of smaller pollinators. Brilliant golden yellow drooping petals surround the tall gray cones from late spring to fall.

A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant. Europe, Caucasus, western Siberia. An infusion is used internally as a blood purifier and externally for treating cuts, burns and bruises.

Interestingly this is another plant, along with Porterweed, that I consistently find when visiting butterfly conservatories. Considered a native (by some) of southern Florida, the Skyflower can grow into a small tree or large shrub in freeze free areas...