Butterfly Attracting Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Alexandria

Includes: 3 each of Black-Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower.

It thrives in full sun in ordinary garden soil. * This is the white flowering form. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). Excellent for attracting birds and butterflies.

* Leucanthemum maximum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name max chrysanthemum. * It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world as an introduced species and sometimes...

Also called "summer lilacs", these butterfly bushes have a long blooming season (August into September), need little care and butterflies as well as hummingbirds really do love them! Space 4-6 ft.

* The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. * Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States .

It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.

* The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.

Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Plant in full sun. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent. Aromatic gray-green foliage.

Grows so thick, it chokes out even persistent weeds and requires no mowing or care. Grows 12-24'' tall. To cover steep slopes, poor soil trouble areas, stream or pond banks where erosion control is needed, there's no better and prettier ground cover to...

It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early fall. * Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America .

Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. Bark and branchlets grayish black. Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or...

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering...

Panicles erect, terminal, 5-30 × 3-18 cm; rachis, pedicel, and calyx villous or pubescent, occasionally subglabrous. Anthers yellow, inserted near or slightly below mouth of corolla tube.

Great for smaller pollinators. Flowers can range from nearly solid burgundy to nearly solid yellow and almost any combination in between. The relaxed petals surround a tall central cone of each daisy-like flower.Finely textured blue-gray foliage on a...

In zone 10 it is likely to be a reliable perennial if not evergreen. Like all of our Porterweeds, this one is an exceptional flowering plant producing copious amounts of nectar for hummingbirds, butterflies, and a variety of bees from spring to fall or...

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western...

Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding perennial which blooms from late spring to frost. Provide a well-drained soil with full to mostly sun for the best results.

Flowers from late spring to frost and is adored by Hummingbirds. A larger flowering form of the common Batface Cuphea which produces 1-1/2" long red tubular blooms that end with a purple bat-like face that is accented by the bright red 'ears'.

Henry Eilers Sweet Coneflower was discovered in Illinois in a prairie remnant along a railroad. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. A beautiful and eye-catching addition to any garden setting as well as a long lasting cutflower for arrangements.

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western...

Deer resistant. Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun. Highly drought tolerant. For a rain garden. Grow 12-16'' tall. Ideal for cut-flowers. Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped with yellow.

Spikes of deep violet, nectar rich, fragrant flowers are borne all summer on this vigorous yet compact Butterfly Bush. Miss Violet is another excellent introduction from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University.

Commonly found growing in sandy pine uplands in eastern Texas and western Louisiana. The two are notoriously difficult to distinguish and honestly initially we thought that it was L.

* The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.

Butterfly Bush is a must for every late summer perennial garden. Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length. Drought and deer resistant.

Zagreb Coreopsis may slowly spread by rhizomes. Zagreb Coreopsis is slightly more compact than Moonbeam. 2001 RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries.

The interesting and beautiful, yellow foliage of this Greg Grant selection of the Giant Coneflower makes for a wonderful contrast with other garden plants. Just as vigorous, easy, and tolerant as any other Great Coneflower, Golda Emanis Rudbeckia produces...