Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Corpus Christi

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...

Wow! Excellent flower power on a vigorous vine, Aphrodite's Purple Nightietm Passion Flower produces an explosion of 3-4" wide flowers composed of purple petals and sepals that are topped by a crown of deep purple, blue, and white filaments.

Tolerant of wet and dry soil conditions. Grown from locally collected seed. A good choice for a minty tea. An excellent choice for native pollinators like bees and butterflies. This tough low native seems to remain where you put it creating a clump forming...

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. This is the selection with the deepest red color, comes from seed collected in southern Baja California.

Passiflora mooreana was named in honor of Dugald Moore of the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden of Glasnevin, Ireland. The beautiful silvery-green delicate trilobed foliage makes it a great contrast for darker colored trellises and backdrops.

Provide Moonbeam Coreopsis with good drainage and medium to low moisture. Moonbeam Coreopsis may slowly spread by rhizomes. 1992 Perennial Plant of the Year. Deadheading will help ensure a fall repeat.

A nearly endless procession of rich pink flower clusters are born in mass above the low, ferny foliage of this wonderful free-flowering perennial Verbena. Use Pink TapienVerbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket.

This is a rhizomatous and thus spreading native perennial common to much of the Pineywoods as well as much of the Southeastern US. Tolerant of light shade is does flower best in full sun.

'John Clayton' , named for the colonial botanist, was selected by the Virginia Native Plant Society and was found growing on the grounds of the 17th century Abington church in Gloucester, VA.

Adapatable to a variety of soil conditions. 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.

Huge scarlet pine-cone-like blooms to 8 inches long are borne in summer atop the large deep green tropical foliage. An unusually large-growing variety.

Chi-Chi Dwarf Pink Mexican Petunia is a lovely dwarf perennial that produces loads of pink trumpet shaped flowers tucked in among the dark green glossy foliage from spring to frost on a compact low mounding plant.

2" wide sunny yellow daisies top the fine-textured blue-green foliage of this durable native perennial from late spring to late summer and sometimes up until frost. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries.

Deep cobalt-blue tubular flowers are held atop the medium green lightly fragrant foliage from summer to fall. An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production.

Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar and then carry it to the next flower. To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties

Periodic removal of older and weaker canes will help to keep them growing vigorously. In the colder winter portions of its range, it should be planted in spring or early summer so that it has ample time to establish before winter sets in.

A perennial which may freeze to the ground in winter in the cooler portions of its range. 1" golden yellow daisies sit atop the dark rich green foliage of this durable groundcover.

He describes it as "chartreuse-green foliage and the normal tall golden yellow flowers. The best foliage color is during the winter months and in full sun". Greg Grant mentions that ‘Golda Emanis' was named for his great aunt.

Rounded clusters of raspberry colored buds open to 2" long tubular, nectar rich, raspberry wine colored flowers in summer. Raspberry Wine Monarda is a disease resistant selection with strongly fragrant, deer and rabbit resistant foliage that can be used...

This rare plant is sustainably produced in nurseries and is now available to the public. The Yellow Purple Coneflower or Yellow Coneflower, Echinacea paradoxa var. Paradoxa , is a taprooted native that is typically found in or near the shallow soils of...

The dwarf form of it's much larger cousin and native to the sandy and sandy loam soils of much of the southeast US. Allow the green fruit to become soft before eating, the softer the better by some accounts.

Images courtesy of Ball Horticultural Company, all rights reserved. The waves of small purple tubular flowers crammed into dense deep purple spikes attract a myriad of pollinators from late spring to fall including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

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

Jack in the Bush or Crucita is truly one of the very best butterfly plants as well as for a host of other pollinators! The nectar rich, light blue to purple, flat topped flower clusters make the perfect landing platforms for pollinators of all shapes...

A nearly endless procession of vivid, deep bluish-purple flower clusters are born in mass above the low, ferny foliage of this wonderful free-flowering perennial Verbena. Use Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as...

This Greg Grant introduction produces loads of medium-dark blue spikes of tubular flowers from late spring to fall on this durable, Texas tough native. The last image in the group with a Bumblebee on the spikes of Henry Duelberg Sage was contributed by...

Provide Mouse-Eared Tickseed with average moisture and good drainage in average garden soils for best results. Deadhead to extend flowering into fall. An evergreen perennial that slowly develops into a 6-9" high slowly spreading stoloniferous groundcover.