Poisonous Plant Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In San Jose

* 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.

Is especially effective in mass plantings -- ground covers, borders, and bed plantings. Plant 2' apart. It is a strong field-grown plant. Drought resistant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant, for a rain garden, deer resistant and great for...

Deer resistant. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has the same wonderfully compact, uniform growth habit as Arizona Sun Gaillardia, but in the exciting color of crimson red.

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall. These hardy plants are welcome in any landscape.

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

Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.

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

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

* 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.

* A good fibre is obtained from the leaves, it is said to be suitable for textiles. Gold and brown dyes are obtained from the whole plant. An extract of them has antibacterial properties.

Plants readily multiply into dense clumps. In the northern most portions of its range, zones 5 and 6, it should be provided with a deep winter mulch. Mary Gregory Stokesia Daisy is a 1998 Niche Gardens introduction.

Use Pink TapienVerbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket. A nearly endless procession of rich pink flower clusters are born in mass above the low, ferny foliage of this wonderful free-flowering perennial Verbena.

Buddleias can grow to become large shrub-like perennials in mild climates but most grow as herbaceous perennials in zone 6 and colder. Snowy white fragrant flower spikes adorn this medium sized free flowering Butterfly Bush from spring to fall.

Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy. The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. * Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America .

Deadheading will help ensure a fall repeat. Drought tolerant and deer resistant. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. 2001 RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Provide Zagreb Coreopsis with good drainage and medium to low moisture.

Grows 6'' tall. Mixed colors only. Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance. Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red,...

Who knew you could out do Black and Blue Salvia?! Black & Bloom Salvia produces larger flowers that emerge from deep black calyces adorned along black stems. An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production.

Vitex are adaptable to a wide variety of soil types and are considered to be drought tolerant enough to be suitable for Xeric gardens. These durable and easily grown shrubs are basically pest and disease free, are deer resistant, and are moderately salt...

An evergreen perennial that slowly develops into a 6-9" high slowly spreading stoloniferous groundcover. Provide Mouse-Eared Tickseed with average moisture and good drainage in average garden soils for best results.

Tall, summer perennial with a somewhat branched stem. It is hardy and not easily outcompeted by other plants. * This plant is grown as an ornamental garden plant. * The disc heads have a scent reminiscent of anise when crushed.

Easy to grow, moderately drought tolerant once well-established, and exceptionally free-flowering. Turk's Cap is well-loved and so is known by a variety of common names including: Turk's Turban, Lady's Eardrops, Scotchman's Purse, Wild Fuchsia, Drummond...

Blooms late summer to early fall. * The flowers are often used for dried flower displays. * Echinops ritro is a species of globe thistle . * If all the flowers are removed early in the season, the plant will often produce a second flush of bloom later...

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich...

The foliage is wonderfully fragrant and can be used in teas and cooking. The bracts are probably more showy than the flowers but the flowers attract loads of pollinators including bees and small butterflies.

Porterweeds are likely the number one favorite nectar plant for butterfly gardeners and surely for the butterflies themselves. I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even...

* The northernmost stand, in Orange County, which comprises a large area on the upper limits of Coal Canyon and on Sierra Peak in the Santa Ana Mountains, burned in a 2006 wildfire.

The Achillea's fragrant foliage deters deer and rabbits. The flower clusters are perched atop sturdy stems held 2-3' above the rosettes of fragrant, soft gray-green, feathery foliage.