Butterfly Attracting Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Wilmington

More recently, companies in Austria, Germany, and Italy have started to produce commercial nettle textiles. * Nettles contain a lot of nitrogenous compounds, so are used as a compost activator or can be used to make a liquid fertilizer, which although...

This is unique selection of butterfly bush has a small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long. Each bloom is a massive cluster of pink flowers with honey fragrance – needless to say the best bee and butterfly magnet.

The seeds in this hybrid mix will produce hardy butterfly bushes that bloom their first year in purple, white, lavender or pink. Also called "summer lilacs", these butterfly bushes have a long blooming season (August into September), need little care...

* The inflorescence is generally a large, solitary flower head which may exceed 8 centimeters in diameter. * Easily grown in a good garden soil. * It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world as an introduced...

Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall. Profusion of blooms from June through September. Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care. An excellent source for cut flowers. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large,...

More recently, companies in Austria, Germany, and Italy have started to produce commercial nettle textiles. * Nettles contain a lot of nitrogenous compounds, so are used as a compost activator or can be used to make a liquid fertilizer, which although...

* The leaves and young shoot tips are eaten raw or used as a flavouring in soups, salads etc. Hyssopus officinalis and Hyssopus decumbens are the same plant; however, France calls it Hyssopus decumbens due to its terrain creating a more potent hyssop.

It typically grows to 6-12' tall with a spread to 4-15' wide when not killed back by cold winter temperatures. Flowers are slightly fragrant. It is a shrub with short, compact, rather rounded habit which grows 3-4' tall.

* Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves.

The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels,...

* Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century. * It is a frequent component in butterfly gardens. * The herb combines well with Sambucus nigra flowers (Elder) and Mentha x piperita vulgaris (Peppermint)...

* The inflorescence is generally a large, solitary flower head which may exceed 8 centimeters in diameter. * Easily grown in a good garden soil. * It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world as an introduced...

Stems sulcate, pubescent or glabrescent. Filipendula species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species: Emperor Moth, Grey Pug, Grizzled Skipper, Hebrew Character, Lime-speck Pug, Mottled Beauty and The Satellite have all been...

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. These hardy, erect-branching shrubs will grow 5-10' tall for an informal privacy screen or can be trimmed for a neat, colorful hedge.

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate...

Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July. It is an easy to grow perennial that spreads fast. They grow well in sun or light shade. Choice one-year-old field-grown plants.

This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. Dwarf Red Porterweed is the smallest and most compact Porterweed that we offer and it lends itself to use near the front of the border, in butterfly...

Purple Coneflowers are practically indestructible because they are sub-zero hardy and withstand heat, grow in dry locations and love poor soil. The Purple Coneflowers bloom from mid-summer to fall on 2-3 foot stems.

It was discovered by it's namesake and was introduced by plantsman Larry Lowman. The sweetly scented foliage gives it its common name. A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine in average garden soils.

Division in March as the new growth appears. * On account of its aromatic properties, fennel fruit forms one of the ingredients of the well-known compound liquorice powder. * An easily grown plant, it succeeds in most soils but prefers a sunny dry position.

* 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 .

* Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England aster, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family. A pink variety of this species is sometimes grown commercially.

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'. Flowers from late spring to frost and is adored by Hummingbirds.

This Rudbeckia is unusual in that it will grow and flower quite well even under deciduous shade. The sweetly scented foliage gives it its common name. A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine in average...

Produces larger purple flowers with a slightly lighter red-purple eye and less conspicuous white throat, Henlea's Hummingbird Heaven Porterweed appears to be the true Lavender Porterweed although it has a denser more compact growth habit than our Coral...

Lecompte Vitex is noted for its extra large 8-12" spikes of purple-blue flowers that are born from late spring to fall. Removing spent flowers and seed heads will promote the production of wave after wave of new flowers throughout the summer and into...

It is frequently used as an informal low hedge. * The flowering quince, with flowers of red, scarlet, pink, white, and variations thereof, in spring; fruits used in cooking; native to China.