Poisonous Plant Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In Mesa

Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers. Drought and deer resistant, attracts butterflies, great cut flower. The Purple Coneflowers bloom from mid-summer to fall on 2-3 foot stems.

* Modern research has shown that the plant increases the white blood cell count and is of value when used to prevent bone marrow loss in cancer chemotherapy patients, it also has potential in the treatment of AIDS.

* Ligustrum vulgare ( Wild Privet , also sometimes known as Common Privet or European Privet ), is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Europe , north Africa and southwestern Asia , from southern England and southwestern Sweden south...

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

Outstanding when planted in full sun. Drought and deer resistant. Butterfly Bush is a must for every late summer perennial garden. Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of hummingbirds.

Lanceolata contains phenylethanoids such as acteoside (verbascoside), cistanoside F, lavandulifolioside, plantamajoside and isoacteoside. Something that is considered to be an indicator of grazing in that area.

About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage). The whole plant contains substances that are toxic to cockroaches.

* Fragrant lilac flowers in clusters as long as 1'; leaves to 6"; native to Manchuria and Korea. * Flora of China states: Shrubs to 6 m. Panicles erect, terminal, 5-30 × 3-18 cm; rachis, pedicel, and calyx villous or pubescent, occasionally subglabrous.

Firefly Heather has been awarded a winner of Britains prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Firefly's intensely colored tiny evergreen leaves that cover the stems of the plant are a brilliant combination...

He describes it as "chartreuse-green foliage and the normal tall golden yellow flowers. The best foliage color is during the winter months and in full sun". The interesting and beautiful, yellow foliage of this Greg Grant selection of the Giant Coneflower...

* Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae , that is native to much of North America .

Keep the soil moist and pot up as soon as the plants are big enough to handle, planting them out after the last expected frosts. An infusion of the leaves has been used as a steam bath in the treatment of rheumatism.

The relaxed petals surround a tall central cone of each daisy-like flower.Finely textured blue-gray foliage on a plant that becomes more dense with age.Blooms from late spring through summer.

Ducks and other water birds and shorebirds consume the seeds. * The inner bark has been chewed in the treatment of toothaches. * Buttonbush is a handsome ornamental suited to wet soils and is also a honey plant.

Lecompte Vitex is noted for its extra large 8-12" spikes of purple-blue flowers that are born from late spring to fall. Vitex are adaptable to a wide variety of soil types and are considered to be drought tolerant enough to be suitable for Xeric gardens.

Slender twigs are glabrous and silvery gray, with "numerous spur shoots", pointed lateral buds, and acuminate scales. * Grows as a shrub or small tree; light gray stems, shiny dark green leaves, fall color yellow; orange to scarlet quarter-inch fruits...

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.

Chi-Chi Dwarf Pink Mexican Petunia is a lovely dwarf perennial that produces loads of pink trumpet shaped flowers tucked in among the dark green glossy foliage from spring to frost on a compact low mounding plant.

The deep purple 3-4", richly fragrant exotic looking flowers are produced throughout the growing season on this vigorous Passionvine with medium green foliage. A caterpillar host for the Gulf Fritillary, Zebra Longwing, and other Heliconian butterflies.

* 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 .

Numerous cultivars with flowers in shades of white, pink and red have been selected. * A constituent of its extract has been found to be an effective and selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor.

* Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States . The root is cardiac and febrifuge. They are best used with Foeniculum vulgare seeds in order to counteract a tendency to cause gripe.

The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock . * Yellow Trumpetbush is an attractive plant that is cultivated as an ornamental .

Tips of older shoots are cooked like spinach. A pea-like flavour, they are very appetizing. * Fragrant pinkish flowers followed by the pods beloved of children. * The young shoots can be eaten cooked.

An excellent addition to the perennial or shrub border and in containers. Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com Buddleias are excellent for attracting pollinators including butterflies, bees, and other garden beneficials! Buddlejas...

Tall, summer perennial with a somewhat branched stem. * The yellow rays (petals) droop downward and are arranged around a grayish-brown cone. * Ratibida pinnata is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names pinnate prairie...

The Dwarf Mexican Petunias are drought resistant once well established but will also grow in poorly drained moist sites. In mild winter climates, like zone 9 and 10, they can remain evergreen and will flower for most of the year.