Pollinator Plants Perennials For Sun For Sale In Aurora

Remove the old flowers of Nepeta Walker's Low as they become brown and unattractive. Nepeta Walker's Low reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts.

Plants may be cut to the ground in late winter. Small disk flowers (rays absent) ranging in color from pale pink to dark purple bloom in corymbiform, dome-shaped clusters (4-7” across) from July to September.

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown.

Plants may become somewhat floppy and open up as the summer progresses, particularly in humid climates. Tolerates drought. It typically forms a foliage mound to 10” tall. This German selection has a nice compact habit, and flowers of deep violet-purple.

After the first season we recommend fertilizing your plants with a timed release fertilizer such as Flower-tone which is specially formulated for flowering annual and perennial plants such as Purple Coneflower.

Echinacea is a must have in every garden for butterflies and pollinators. They are drought and heat tolerant with long-lasting magnificent displays of large daisies with coned centers.

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times...

Although it is rarely used for culinary purposes, it is frequently used as an addition to sachets and potpourris. Prefers a light, sandy soil with somewhat low fertility. Lavender Provence is a wonderfully fragrant herb, grows quickly and produces buds...

We highly recommend that you mulch your Coreopsis Zagreb with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of...

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. Sedum Autumn Fire reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during...

Often repeat blooms in late summer or fall. This selection forms a bushy mound of silver foliage, with long spikes of purple-blue flowers. In the north, this variety blooms from mid through late summer, but it blooms earlier in the south.

Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants.

However, once new growth begins, it proceeds quite rapidly. New growth shoots are slow to emerge in spring. Immune to the heat and humidity of the deep South. Flowers (to 6-9” wide) are among the largest flowers produced by any perennial that is winter...

Spent flowers should be cut back for a repeat performance in fall. Blue Hill is easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun. Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer.

Tolerates hot and humid summers and some drought. Deer Resistant, Drought tolerant, Heat tolerant, Attracts Butterflies and Songbirds, 1999 Perennial Plant of the Year, Native Rudbeckia Goldstrum is easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained...

* The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups. * A perennial herb with 8" leaves covered with prickly hairs; flowers to 1/2", yellowish white, pink, or purplish, in summer, in nodding clusters; rather coarse; likes rich, moist, limestone soils; native...

Through most of the summer, the dense mats are covered with bright, low spikes of lavender-pink. Perfect for keeping out weeds and highlighting shady corners, the silvery leaves are tidy and pest-free.

Synonymous with Buphthalmum speciosum. Features sprays of single, daisy-like flower heads (to 3.5” across) with yellow rays and large, flattened, orange-yellow center disks. Blooms appear in late summer to early fall on branching-at-the-top stems rising...

‘Sugar Shack' is a buttonbush that always has something spectacular on display, from white sweet-scented flowers covered with butterflies in the summer, to bright red fruits all the way to winter.

This stunning premium winter hardy Daylily is heavily budded and attracts hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden. This vigorous re-blooming Daylily has huge 6½" fragrant blooms that are a peachy cream with plum purple eyes and a yellowish green throat.

Winner of multiple awards, this rebloomer produces fragrant 3.5” sparkling light pink flowers that start opening early in the daylily season and later in the summer as well. Grows 19” tall and 18” wide.

Deer resistant. Starts blooming in late spring and reblooms later in the summer. The stunning double flowers from this tetraploid hybrid measure nearly 6" across and are heavily ruffled with varying shades of blue.

Black Flowered Geranium (Pelargonium glaucifolium) We are re-introducing the Black-Flowered Geranium, a cactus geranium, that's famous for its intense, heavy and rich night scent. Mature specimens often experience a dormancy during the summer months but...

Deer resistant. The flower open in early summer on 28-32" stems in sunny garden areas. A spectacular Japanese Iris, Queen's Tiara has very large pure white falls with a yellow blaze and smaller violet styles.

Planting tip: work well rotted manure or aged compost into the bed, apply bone meal or lime into the top of the soil along with a high phosphorous-type fertilizer. Oriental Poppies will grow in the south and bloom in part shade.

With each garden ordered you will receive: 12 mixed Creeping Phlox (spring) 1 Red Double Peony (late spring) 1 Pink Double Peony (late spring) 3 English Lavender (summer) 7 mixed Ground Cover Daylilies (summer) 3 Golden Sundrops (summer) 3 mixed Painted...

Like the parent species, they are all slow to emerge in spring and wait for the signal of warmer soil temperatures before they begin to show themselves often leading the impatient gardener (myself included) to think that they are ready for the compost...