Purple Butterfly Plant

Flavor is of intense basil.CULTURAL TIP: As with many of our easy-to-grow herbs, basils can be seeded directly into your garden in early through mid-summer. Small percentage of plants are green.

Flavor is of intense basil.Direct seed (recommended): Plant seeds 1/4" deep, 2-3 seeds per inch, in rows 18" apart. Leaves are easily bruised when picking, so handle carefully. High yields and great flavor.

As the plant ages, the hairs spread further apart and the color is not as intense. Flowers are a sign the plant has reached maturity; be sure to start cuttings if you've not already got them growing.

It begins flowering early in the season (December-January-February) and flowers over an extended period. When grown or overwintered indoors provide them with plenty of cool direct sunlight.

Indigo Spires has long been one of our favorites and is a reliable performer in the landscape producing a 2-4 high plant with medium green foliage. To learn more about this excellent perennial Salvia " Salvia x "Indigo Spires", Indigo Spires Salvia "...

Spreads and slowly creates a dense groundcover or as a trailing plant in containers. An old and reliable perennial Verbena that produces large clusters of deep purple blooms from spring to fall.

The dainty nectar rich flowers are visited by bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Use Cloud Eight Verbena in the garden, landscape, or in container gardens. Cloud Eight is a semi-dwarf selection of Purole-Top Vervain with a compact and free flowering...

The Maypop is the caterpillar host for the Gulf Fritillary and other members of the Longwing family as well as the Variegated Fritillary. The round fruit 'may pop' when you step on them giving this beautiful native passion flower its name.

Buchanan's Sage is an excellent choice for containers or the garden where it is sure to attract both hummingbirds and butterflies. Average moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soils.Average moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soils.

The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces, and containers where it is sure to attract loads of butterflies and other pollinators! The Lo & Beholdtm Buddleja...

This Turk's Cap has won the prestigious Lynn Lowery Award from the Native Plant Society of Texas! For more on Greg's introductions from the SFA Gardens website click the "More Info" link below.

Masses of tall wispy deep pink spikes are covered by a succession of large pink butterfly-like flowers throughout summer. A tough and hardy, drought tolerant, perennial US Native.

Snow Queen Passionflower is a vigorous, hardy, and exceptionally free-flowering Riverside hybrid created by Myles Irvine of the UK that can be enjoyed in gardens or as a container plant.

Train it on a trellis or other support to produce a small-medium sized fragrant evergreen vine. This naturally sprawling vine-like shrub can easily be pruned to produce a dense mass of foliage and flowers.

The Butterfly Series Pentas are excellent heat and humidity tolerant free flowering Pentas with a medium sized well-branched growth habit. Pentas are considered to be deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant.

This exciting new day-length neutral and thusly free flowering Black-Eyed Susan was discovered at Dupont Nursery near Plaquemine, Louisiana and is sure to bring in the butterflies and pollinators as well as providing color all summer.

October Skies Aster is a low mounding perennial that develops into a compact shrub-like plant by flowering time. May not tolerate poor drainage but at the same time will do well in most soils from clay, calcareous, limestone, and sand.

Nitida have sometimes been grouped as one species. A choice native coneflower, the Texas Coneflower produces 3-5" bright golden yellow daisies that are borne singly, or in small clusters of up 5 flowers, and are held on sturdy upright stems in summer.

Porterweeds are excellent nectar producers outperforming nearly all other butterfly plants in the garden. Porterweed is known to reseed particularly in mild winter climates. I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of...

Scarlet Sage is the number one most recommended Salvia species for hummingbirds! A perennial in mild winter climates and may reseed under good conditions. Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for pollination...

The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces, and containers where it is sure to attract loads of butterflies and other pollinators! The Lo & Beholdtm Buddleja...

It flowers all summer and fall. It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. An easy to grow and drought tolerant heirloom plant. This is the selection with the deepest red color, comes from seed collected in southern...

Deadheading spent flowers will help to promote continuous flowering but this is not required. An old favorite and an excellent performer, Royal Red Butterfly Bush produces a continuous wave of rich reddish-purple spikes of flowers that are adored by butterflies,...

Attracts butterflies, bees, and a variety of other pollinators. This is the only species of Echinacea that naturally produces yellow flowers. This rare plant is sustainably produced in nurseries and is now available to the public.

An excellent cut flower that can last for up to a week in a vase. These seedlings originated from a vigorous native Louisiana population of this beautiful perennial. A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at...

For more about the story about the discovery of Henry Duelberg and Augusta Duelberg mealycup sages see the 'External Info Link' below. This Greg Grant introduction produces loads of medium-dark blue spikes of tubular flowers from late spring to fall on...

All of these images were taken at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas to learn more about their great gardens, or to see hundreds of butterflies be sure to visit. Jack in the Bush or Crucita is truly one of the very best butterfly plants as...