Pollinator Plants Perennials For Sun For Sale In Tennessee

Attracts pollinators Achillea Paprika produces fine textured, fern-like gray-green foliage that makes an excellent contrast for the tall blossom heads. Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting.

Prefers a light, sandy soil with somewhat low fertility. Lavender Provence is a popular hybrid lavender for the herb garden. Lavandin can be difficult to grow in the far north area, primarily because of winter stresses and high summer humidity.

Plants may be cut to the ground in late winter. It was discovered growing among a population of seedlings of this species at a Conard-Pyle Nursery in Pennsylvania. Easily grown in abundantly moist, fertile, humusy soils in full sun to part shade.

Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil which more times than not will be hard and compacted.

Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting. It is a naturally occurring beneficial fungus that colonizes on the new growing roots of plants.

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly.

If severe, pruning is necessary, it must be realized that the plant will shift its focus in the short-run from setting flower buds to growing vigorously, and it is very likely that the Berried Treasure Huckleberry will have few if any bloom buds during...

This process is called deadheading. Fall pruning, especially in warmer climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly.

Bright gold petals with a deep brown cone highlight the garden in late summer. Tolerates light shade, but best in full sun. Rudbeckia goldstrum is a beautiful native plant that is a beacon for butterflies and bees.

In regions with clay soils, a raised bed or rock garden will improve success greatly. They generally flower in midsummer, a little later than the English types. Lavender Hidcote is a compact mounded form typically growing to 20 to 24” tall and featuring...

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

* 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 to Europe, where it is used medicinally; a weed...

We recommend when planting your plants to use Bio-tone starter fertilizer by Espoma. Excellent for attracting pollinators to your garden. Most plants are very drought tolerant; however they grow very slow without adequate water.

Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep.

Deer resistant. The bloom time is extended, and it makes an excellent cut flower. Exciting flowered mix in shades of bright reds, roses and violets.

Awarded 2007 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association. Violet-blue spikes top this low grower, lending a soft, muted feel to the garden. This low-maintenance catmint keeps its blue-green, aromatic leaves neat through the summer.

Field grown plants. Order by color with confidence that all are choice varieties that normally sell for much more under their variety names. We send you hand-selected root divisions that will produce these giant blooms for years to come.

'Glass Slippers' Buddleia - This butterfly bush is covered from top to bottom in pale blue clusters. Beautiful in a container! Full sun. 'Leading Lady Plum' Monarda - This compact, low-growing flower blooms earlier in the summer than other bee balms,...

The wild species blooms in white or yellow, and is hardy from USDA Zones 3a-10b. Native to subpolar regions of northern Europe and North America, Iceland poppies are hardy but short-lived perennials ,grown as biennials , that yield large, papery, bowl-shaped,...

They can be grown successfully in a plastic basin or in a pot that is standing in a deep saucer of water. * Grow in sun or partial shade in peat or moss. Like all the Sarraceniaceae, it is native to the New World .

Blooms: Spring-Summer. Loved by hummingbirds and butterflies these plants are drought, heat and deer resistant and are perfect in containers. Height: 16-20". These big purple flowered Penstemon put on a terrific display of color all summer long.

Grows best when it gets only morning sun or in a fully shaded area. Sweet Pea is a very hardy plant that makes great cut flowers. They are extremely fast growing plants that can be used as climbers on a fence or trellis.

Laevis and possibly others. This root hardy die-back perennial has a compact 4-6' x 4-6' habit and is tolerant of soil moisture levels ranging from average to wet. Grandiflorus, H.

For the best results provide your Lantana with an average to well draining soil with average moisture in an area that gets 6 hours or more of sun per day. This durable and reliable perennial is moderately drought tolerant, deer resistant, salt tolerant,...

We have found it to easily withstand short periods of 15F and, as of yet, no pests or diseases. An evergreen woody perennial creating a large arching bush with age. 2" light pink saucer-shaped blooms, with a burgundy eye, are borne from spring to fall.

Honorable Mention 1998, Award of Merit 2000! This tall bearded iris boasts silvery white streaks on grayish tan standards and grape falls. Good growth habits.

Large upward facing dark pink flowers are produced in spring on sturdy stems. Provide your LA Hybrid Lilies with a moderately fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny location for the best results.