Butterfly Attracting Plant Flowering Tree For Sale In Colorado Springs

* The lilac is a very popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks, because of its attractive, sweet-smelling flowers, which appear in early summer just before many of the roses and other summer flowers come into bloom.

* A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming. * Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine .

* Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an herbaceous perennial plant native throughout most of eastern North America . It is also used in treating kidney diseases.

* The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. * Echinacea paradoxa ( Bush's purple coneflower , Yellow Coneflower ) is a perennial species of flowering plant in the genus Echinacea .

* Can be treated as a distinct cultivar, to be named 'Ernest Wilson' * This cultivar is distinguished from all others in the species by both habit and hardiness. Native to Korea. * Hardier form than the species.

* The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds. * The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles. The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds.

* This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber. * This is a lovely tree with fragrant red flowers in the spring and beautiful evergreen foliage.

* Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position. Prefers a calcareous soil but tolerates mildly acid soils. * Succeeds in poor soils and on dry walls.

* Yellow Trumpetbush is an attractive plant that is cultivated as an ornamental . The flowers attract bees , butterflies , and hummingbirds . Yellow Trumpetbush is a ruderal species , readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy , and cleared land and occasionally...

* Siberian Wallflower makes a dramatic vibrant addition to a wildflower meadow. * It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or...

In literature, it is closely associated with the Mullai (forest) region of Sangam landscape * It is the national tree of Thailand, and its flower is Thailand's national flower. * The species is native to the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions of...

* Common yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that produces one to several stems (0.2 to 1m tall) and has a rhizomatous growth form. * The familiar yarrow from which many garden cultivars have been derived; grows in very poor soil in full sun.

It is highly valued for posts and fencing rails, and is also used for interior finishes, cabinet work etc. * Wood - coarse and straight-grained, soft, not strong, moderately high in shock resistance, very durable in the soil.

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

* Leucanthemum maximum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name max chrysanthemum. * A good butterfly and moth plant. It has a fringe of 20 to 30 white ray florets around a center of many densely packed yellow disc...

It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, but excluding the far north of Canada as well as some of the southern United States. The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems.

* The wood is hard and heavy, suitable for making furniture and other small articles. * Dark green shiny leaves, yellow, bronzy, and red in fall; 1/3" bright red fruit, good bird food; large shrub, can be trained as a small tree; susceptible to fireblight;...

The flowers, which appear in early summer, can have a pleasantly strong fragrance. It has light green paired leaflets with toothed edges and sharp spines on the bottom. This plant is native to Western North America where it grows in moist openings and...

* Yields an essential oil, used in perfumery, as a hair tonic etc. * Its odor is considered similar to that of the bergamot orange (the source of bergamot oil used to flavor Earl Grey tea.

* Annual Honesty ( Lunaria annua ) is a tall (height about 1 m), hairy-stemmed biennial plant native to the Balkans and south west Asia, and naturalized throughout Europe , North America , and parts of Asia .

* The plant reaches 2 to 4 ft (0.61 to 1.2 m) in height, with many branches, and a spread of about 2.5 ft (0.76 m). Spreading growth to 12". * Erect, bushy annual with oval to heart-shaped, toothed, hairy, dark green leaves 2 1/2" long.

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.

* Common yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that produces one to several stems (0.2 to 1m tall) and has a rhizomatous growth form. * The familiar yarrow from which many garden cultivars have been derived; grows in very poor soil in full sun.

* Yields an essential oil, used in perfumery, as a hair tonic etc. * Its odor is considered similar to that of the bergamot orange (the source of bergamot oil used to flavor Earl Grey tea.

The inflorescence is a dense raceme of up to 20 flowers hanging pendent or held erect on the branches. * Ribes nevadense is an erect shrub growing 1 to 2 meters tall. It is somewhat waxy in texture and studded with glandular hairs.

Thick, woody, red roots go deep and help plant withstand droughty conditions, but make established shrubs difficult to transplant. Best in sandy loams or rocky soils with good drainage.

* Plants have an extensive root system and are also fairly wind tolerant, they can be planted as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion. * It is found throughout eastern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of the continental United States.