Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Grand Rapids

This Rudbeckia is unusual in that it will grow and flower quite well even under deciduous shade. A vigorous clump forming perennial common to stream banks and moist areas but will do fine in average garden soils.

This is considered to be the Southernmost of the Echinaceas making it an excellent addition to the perennial garden. 3-4" light pink to purplish pink coneflowers with drooping petals are held high above the foliage on sturdy stems.

This is a tough and hardy, perennial US Native. Each golden yellow petal is heavily splashed with burgundy and surround the tall brown central cone of each daisy-like flower. Finely textured blue-gray foliage on a plant that becomes more dense with age.

Remember, the Elderberry flowers and fruits on new growth. 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.

Considered to be one of the most vigorous and disease resistant cultivars available. A hummingbird magnet! Earlier flowering in the Southeast and later flowering as you move northward.

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.

This Turk's Cap has won the prestigious Lynn Lowery Award from the Native Plant Society of Texas! For more on Greg's introductions from the SFA Gardens website click the "More Info" link below.

6-8" spikes of lavender-pink flowers that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees are borne in summer. The Lace-Leaf Vitex is considered by many to be the most hardy of the Chaste Trees.

I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even most Lantana has to catch its breath from time to time during the heat of summer.

It produces large clusters of white flowers sometimes tinged with pink or purple that attract a variety of pollinators. The seed for these originated in the southern most portions of Texas.

An unusual and uncommon native found growing along stream sides and woodlands that is most common in western Louisiana and eastern Texas but is also found in much of the southeast as well.

The Flutterby Petite Tutti Fruitti Pink Butterfly Bush was selected as a Louisiana Super Plant by the LSU Agcenter in 2014. Flutterby Petite Blue Heaven Butterfly Bush is a densely branching compact deciduous shrub with gray-green foliage that makes colorful...

A very early and often long flowering drought tolerant Liatris. Attracts butterflies. Clusters of deep violet-purple flowers emerge from short upright to arching stems in summer and are held above the deep green grass-like foliage of this tough bulbous...

This is a durable and slowly spreading native perennial that flowers throughout the summer months. Considered by many to be the best of the Mountainmints, Clustered Mountainmint produces an abundance of tiny whitish tubular blooms touched with purple...

Slender Blazingstar, Liatris acidota, is a denizen of the imperiled Coastal Prairie ecosystem. Grown from locally collected seed. Attracts Butterflies. Multiple plants per pot. This beautiful perennial wildflower is found only in the Pineywoods of western...

Where temperatures drop below freezing it is more likely to be deciduous. Sometimes called the Butterfly Bush or Christmas Senna, this durable plant is considered to be somewhat drought tolerant once well-established and is deer resistant.

Somewhat drought resistant once well-established. Whiteleaf Mountainmint has a strong minty sage-like fragrance and can be used in place of sage in cooking as well as in the place of mint for teas and coffee.

The Butterfly Series Pentas have been selected as a 2012 Louisiana Super Plant! Give it a rich fertile soil and periodic water during dry spells. Rich red 3" flowers clusters. In the northern portions of their hardiness range provide mulch to help ensure...

Provide your Snow Queen Passionvine with a breathable protective winter mulch and a well-drained soil in the garden and landscape. Large, up to 5" wide, sweetly fragrant, long-lasting, pure white flowers are produced from spring to fall or year round...

Perennial Verbenas make wonderful additions to the butterfly garden providing nectar even in late winter for early visitors. Use Blue-Violet Tapien Verbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket.

We generally wait until the fruits become yellow (in yellow fruited cultivars) and wrinkled and have fallen from the vine. Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking nectar and then...

In some states and counties Buddleia's are considered invasive, please check with your local state offices before purchasing. Miss Pearl is the latest release in the Miss series from the breeding work of Dr. Dennis Werner at North Carolina State University...

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.

Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead is clump forming perennial whose brilliant blue flowers are sure to attract pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and low flying hummingbirds. Blue Dragon Nordic Dragonhead can be enjoyed as a container plant or in the garden...

The more sunlight they get the fuller the plants tend to be and the more flowers they generally produce. The only real maintenance for Turk's Cap is to prune away the dead stems in winter where they freeze to near the ground and to mulch them as needed.

Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing. A tight compact mound of blue-green foliage is topped with spikes of lilac colored, fragrant flowers.

An excellent addition to the perennial or shrub border and in containers. A truly dwarf Buddleia producing loads of fragrant blue spikes on a low mounding plant that only grows to 2-1/2'!Of 107 Butterfly Bushes on trial at Wisley Gardens Lo' & Beholdtm...