Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Spokane

A good choice for the back of the border. Along with 'Herbstonne', the Sweet Coneflower is one of the latest to flower. These Rudbeckia's are good for attracting smaller butterflies and it seems that the Red Banded Hairstreak is one to find its nectar...

Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush makes a great addition to the garden and landscape but this one is compact enough for containers too. Spikes of deep purplish blue, nectar rich flowers are produced from summer to fall and attract butterflies...

An application of fertilizer at this time may also be beneficial in spurring flower production. Somewhat drought resistant once well-established but will grow and flower better under average water conditions.

Sweet Goldenrod is the state herb of Delaware and is has been used to make the medicinal Blue Mountain Tea. The flowers and foliage, fresh or dried, is often used to make a very nice herbal tea, as a mild spice in cooking, and could certainly be used...

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.

Image courtesy of North Creek Nurseries. Rudbeckia's generally attract smaller pollinators with their disc flowers, the tiny flowers that make up the 'cone' on a cone flower. The Cutleaf Coneflower produces 2-4" wide, drooping yellow daisies that are...

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.

Incredibly fragrant (considered to be even better than a lilac by some!) rich pink flowers in summer are held above the rich green glossy foliage. An exceptionally hardy Abelia and a great addition to any garden.

Plant two for pollination. Seedling grown. The dwarf form of it's much larger cousin and native to the sandy and sandy loam soils of much of the southeast US. The large tropical looking foliage turns a golden yellow in fall.

Remove seed pods to prevent unwanted seedlings as it can be difficult to eradicate once it is well-established. Fringed Twinevine is fairly drought resistant once well-established.

Buddlejas are considered invasive in some regions please check with your local state offices before purchasing. The small size, exceptional flower power, and spreading habit lends Lilac Chip to use in the perennial border, as a groundcover, smaller spaces,...

To learn more about the beneficial insects that Milkweeds support see our growing guide: Milkweed: Much More than Just a Monarch Host. Solid yellow blooms are borne from spring to fall on this vigorous and fast growing upright perennial.

Wedelia is highly salt tolerant and is considered drought tolerant enough to be used in Xeriscapes. Drought tolerant once established, Wedelia revels in the heat and sun creating a dense 8-12" high mass of foliage, stems and flowers.

Super easy and tough. Their reliability and durability make them highly recommended garden perennials. Peachies Pick is a dense clump forming and exceptionally long flowering selection of the Stokesia Daisy.

Pollinated flowers are followed by round passion fruit that ripen to yellow and contain a tangy tropical tasting clear flesh that surrounds each of the small black inedible seeds. To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties...

Sweetly fragrant clusters of 2", star-like, pure white blooms are produced continuously throughout the summer months against a rich glossy green foliage. This naturally sprawling vine-like shrub can easily be pruned to produce a dense mass of foliage...

The flowers of passionvines attract a host of nectar feeders including hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, as well as their foliage playing host to a menagerie of butterfly caterpillars including the Gulf Fritillary, Variegated Fritillary, Zebra Longwing,...

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.

Use Pink TapienVerbena as a groundcover, a spiller in containers, or as a beautiful hanging basket. 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.

Spikes of fragrant tiny pink flowers emerge from this diminutive Butterfly Bush from early spring through fall. Lo' and Beholdtm Pink Micro Chip is a sterile selection so it does not spend its energy producing seed but instead produces an endless display...

Periodic removal of the spent flower clusters will promote more flowers instead of fruit. Considered a native (by some) of southern Florida, the Skyflower can grow into a small tree or large shrub in freeze free areas but will often act like a die-back...

The flowers of Pentas will attract butterflies and other nectar loving creatures to your gardens throughout summer. One of the darkest red Pentas on the market! Ruby Glow produces large clusters of deep brilliant red star-shaped flowers that are borne...

An excellent choice for hummingbirds, mixed containers, hanging baskets, and in mass plantings. Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding perennial which blooms from late spring to frost.

Grassleaved Goldenaster is a durable native that makes a nice groundcover under larger perennials and naturalistic settings including meadows and roadside plantings. Tolerant of light shade is does flower best in full sun.

This is IMO but due its large size we expect this to be Salvia azurea var. Great at the back of the garden or in natural settings. Grandiflora syn. Full sun is preferred but it will still grow and flower if it gets more than half a day of sun but is more...

Vitex are great for summer color and their large spikes of colorful flowers attract butterflies and bees. This is a vigorous and disease free and drought tolerant spreading to upright deciduous shrub or small tree that attracts hummingbirds, butterflies...

Few other woody vines can provide the long flowering show that this wonderful native can provide as well as attracting loads of Hummingbirds. For more information see our Coral Honeysuckle Growing Guide .