Pollinator Plants Perennials For Sun For Sale In Chicago

Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting. Aster October Skies does prefer drier soils in the winter. The lavender-blue flowers of Aster October Skies completely cover the sweetly scented foliage.

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates.

Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

Echinacea is a must have in every garden for butterflies and pollinators. Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5″ diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, ovate to broad-lanceolate, dark green leaves.

The hybrid Lavenders are sometimes known as Lavandin. Lavender Hidcote is one of the hardiest and is extremely easy to grow, withstanding high heat and humidity. Plants should be clipped back by half in spring.

It was discovered growing among a population of seedlings of this species at a Conard-Pyle Nursery in Pennsylvania. Details: Moist areas in borders, cottage gardens, meadows, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas, rain gardens or water margins.

Remove spent flower spikes to help extend the bloom period. Plants are reasonably drought tolerant, once established. Details: Perfect for the perennial borders, cottage garden, or butterfly gardens and wild gardens.

Thrives in full sun or part shade. We highly recommend that you mulch your Amsonia hubrichtii with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. The lavender-blue varieties are often used as a substitute for lavender plants, where lavender is not particularly hardy.

Echinacea is a must have in every garden for butterflies and pollinators. The most popular of our native wildflowers. They are drought and heat tolerant with long-lasting magnificent displays of large daisies with coned centers.A North American native...

Excellent for fresh cutting, this is an excellent Lavender selection for drying. Plants should be clipped back by half in spring. In regions with clay soils, a raised bed or rock garden will improve success greatly.

Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer. Spent flowers should be cut back for a repeat performance in fall. Salvia Blue Hills is a sun perennial with sky blue spikes of flowers rise above a mound of aromatic gray-green foliage and blooms June –...

Remove spent flower spikes to help extend the bloom period. Medium green leaves are aromatic when crushed. In summer, dense terminal spikes of violet-blue flowers rise above the foliage to 24” tall.

Espoma starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked.

Rudbeckia are a super easy way to add color to any sunny garden. Provides seeds in the winter for birds and nectar for butterflies. Oblong to lanceolate, dark green foliage. Features large, daisy-like flowers (3-4″ across) with deep yellow rays and...

Site in locations protected from wind to minimize the risk of wind burn. Flowers (to 6-9” wide) are among the largest flowers produced by any perennial that is winter hardy to the St. Louis area.

Tolerates drought. Salvia May Night has deep blue spikes of flowers rise above a mound of aromatic, narrow green wrinkled foliage that blooms June – September. It can also tolerate coastal salty conditions.

Naturalizes in optimum growing conditions by both self-seeding and creeping rhizomes. Best in part shade. * Best naturalized in moist to wet soils in water gardens, bog gardens, wet meadows, water margins or low spots.

Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the center of the flower head provide nourishment for birds when finished blooming. Echinacea Pow Wow Wild berry is a 2010 All-America Selection (AAS) winner.

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Sedum Autumn Fire a good deep watering. Sedum Autumn Fire reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early...

Naturalizes in optimum growing conditions by both self-seeding and creeping rhizomes. Best in part shade. * Best naturalized in moist to wet soils in water gardens, bog gardens, wet meadows, water margins or low spots.

This mixture provides a wide range of colors that appear in early spring, filling the air with their delightful wallflower fragrance. Plants will over-summer, then as cool weather arrives in fall, produce an abundance of flowers through winter and into...

Lilac 'Scent and Sensibility Pink' is just 3 feet high and spreads 6 feet wide, but this romantic beauty is opulently fragrant and a great landscape attraction. Lilac pink flowers bloom heavily in spring then rebloom in late summer to fall.

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils.

They can be cut back to near ground level in winter. Lantana are only second to Porterweed in our garden for their ability to attract butterflies! Lantana are loaded with flower power and normally flower continuously from late spring to frost.

This dynamic Iris starts blooming in early summer and produces lots of 6" flowers on upright 30" stems that standout in the garden or bouquets. Siberian Iris are so easy to grow in sun or partial shade in just about any soil type including wet ones.

Intense sapphire blue, 3-4" widely flaring flowers with dark purple stripes open in the morning and lighten to azure as the day wears on and finally fade to fuchsia pink in the afternoon.