Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Cary

A tough and showy native wildflower that is surely worthy of a place in any garden. A clump forming native that flowers from late spring through mid-summer and sometimes into fall.

Butterfly Bushes are easily grown, free flowering butterfly magnets and are moderately drought tolerant once well established. Miss Pearl is the latest release in the Miss series from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University...

It produces large clusters of white flowers sometimes tinged with pink or purple that attract a variety of pollinators. Fringed Twinevine is fairly drought resistant once well-established.

The most current treatment in the Flora of North America separates the two as individual species. We have to say thank you to Marc Pastorek and C.C. Richmond for sharing this with us!

Sweet Goldenrod is the state herb of Delaware and is has been used to make the medicinal Blue Mountain Tea. Wonderfully fragrant of licorice or anise when bruised or dried, Sweet Goldenrod produces medium to large pyramidal clusters of golden yellow flowers...

Super easy and tough. Large, 3-4" cornflower-like daisies are born in summer on this durable and reliable US native perennial. Their reliability and durability make them highly recommended garden perennials.

Trumpet Honeysuckle is an excellent choice anywhere a 'tame' vine is needed. Flowering from early spring to fall. An Almost Eden exclusive! Clusters of soft orange buds open to intense dark orange tubular blooms.

Tall spikes of dark golden yellow 1" blooms are born in summer and fall on an upright growing shrub. Considered by some to be root hardy in zone 9 with protection. Called Popcorn Cassia because when brushed or crushed the foliage emits the wonderful fragrance...

An exceptionally hardy Abelia and a great addition to any garden. Abelias are easily grown, drought, salt, deer, and pest resistant upright to arching evergreen to semi-evergreen shrubs.

Cut back the stems to the rosette in winter. Excellent drought tolerance once well-established as well as good deer resistance and reliability. Excellent fall color for the garden as well as drought tolerance and pest and disease resistance make this...

An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production. A.k.a. Texas Sage, Scarlet Salvia, Tropical Sage. Somewhat drought resistant once well-established but will grow and flower better under average water conditions.

Plants readily multiply into dense clumps. Their only downfall is wet soggy winter soils which could cause rot. May reseed under good conditions though it may be unlikely to where mulched.

A Dawn Stover Nifty Fifty favorite herbaceous plant! Dawn is a Research Associate at Stephen F Austin in Nacogdoches, TX and currently maintains the Mast Arboretum plant collection.

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 and hummingbirds gardens, as well as containers.

Attracts butterflies, bees, and a variety of other pollinators. The Yellow Purple Coneflower or Yellow Coneflower, Echinacea paradoxa var. A paradoxically yellow flowered purple coneflower with deep sunny yellow ray petals that surround the dark bristly...

Admittedly the flowers of Talayote are not extra large and showy but it could certainly be used in the garden as a screen or at the back of the garden if so desired. By some this plant may be considered weedy, simply remove any ripening seed pods to prevent...

If your Salvia or Sage starts to look unkempt in mid to late summer consider giving it a light shearing or remove the spent flowering spikes to help promote new growth and flower production.

An excellent choice for hummingbirds, mixed containers, hanging baskets, and in mass plantings. A succession of red tubular blooms that end in a purple bat-like 'face' are topped by a pair of glowing red 'ears' creating the interesting 'bat face' look.

Starry Rosinweed is a common native of our local pineywoods where it can be seen flowering sometimes as early as March. 2-3" bright yellow sunflower-like flowers are held on 3'H branching sturdy stems from late spring to fall.

We have seen singular stems reach near 8' in the garden, grown in partial sun. Full sun is preferred but it will still grow and flower if it gets more than half a day of sun but is more likely to 'stretch' and flop.

Provide Peach Perfectiontm Abelia with a full to mostly sunny position in most any well-drained soil for the best color and optimum flowering. It's like having fall color year round! The new growth of Peach Perfectiontm Abelia offers shades of orange...

Excellent for Butterflies, Bees, and Hummingbirds. An unusually pure white selection of Vitex. These durable and easily grown shrubs are basically pest and disease free, are deer resistant, and are moderately salt tolerant.

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. Delightful red, white or purple hibiscus-shaped flowers blossom each summer for a lifetime of natural beauty. (Our choice of color.) Plants may have single or double blooms.

In zone 10 it is likely to be a reliable perennial if not evergreen. This is one of the few plants that you will find consistently at nearly every butterfly conservatory. We hope you will enjoy this new cultivar, named after Jeff's granddaughter, as much...

In mild winter climates they can get fairly large but are certainly amenable to pruning. Turk's Cap are native to portions of the southern US although they have been passed around so much in southern gardens it may be hard to say just where anymore.

Stoke's Aster or Stokesia Daisies are durable drought, deer, and rabbit resistant, clump-forming native perennials. Stoke's Aster comes highly recommended and its easy to see why with moderate drought resistance, few pest or disease problems, deer and...

Frantzii , along with other species, are repellent to some species of ants which prevents nectar robbing. Interestingly the flowers of S. " by Gavin Ballantyne and Pat Willmer. For more information see the research paper " Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence:...