Butterfly Plants Plants For Sale In Texas

It is best to plant at least two for cross pollination and to bear the heaviest crops. Occasionally we pick the large ripe fruit clusters whole as a treat for our chickens. Remember, the Elderberry flowers and fruits on new growth.

Shoal Creek Vitex is noted for its extra large 8-12" spikes of purple-blue flowers that are born from late spring to fall. Vitex are adaptable to a wide variety of soil types and are considered to be drought tolerant enough to be suitable for Xeric gardens.

May produce yellow ripening to orange tangy fruit if cross-pollinated. The extra large, up to 5" wide, long lasting flowers of the Star of Surbiton Passion Flower are composed of pure white petals and sepals that are topped with a large corona of contrasting...

The Maypop is the caterpillar host for the Gulf Fritillary and other members of the Longwing family as well as the Variegated Fritillary. Bumblebees are perfectly designed for this as the pollen is rubbed on their back as they circle the corona drinking...

Deep dark red, 2-3" wide daisies are born all summer long on this exciting new perennial. Red Satin Coreopsis is a sterile selection from Darrel Probst so it can spend all summer flowering.

The flower clusters are perched atop sturdy stems held 2-3' above the rosettes of fragrant, soft gray-green, feathery foliage. Dense flat topped clusters that can be 6" or more across are composed of tightly packed, tiny, dark golden yellow daisies.

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 of nectar rich flowers. Photos courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

Betonyleaf Mistflower may act like a dieback perennial in the northern portion of its hardiness range. Provide a full sun location and a well drained soil for the best results. Rounded clusters of bluish purple flowers are produced from mid spring to...

An unusually pure white selection of Vitex. Silver Spires produces medium sized spikes of white flowers that are held against the dark blue-green fragrant foliage. Vitex is a vigorous, disease and deer resistant, drought and salt tolerant large spreading...

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...

Turk's Cap is well-loved and so is known by a variety of common names including: Turk's Turban, Ladie's Eardrops, Scotchman's Purse, Wild Fuchsia,Drummond Wax-Mallow, Texas Mallow, Mexican Apple, Red Mallow, May Apple, Wild Turk's Cap, Bleeding Heart,...

One of the smaller growing and longer flowering Blazingstars with good drought resistance once well-established. The two are notoriously difficult to distinguish and honestly initially we thought that it was L.

Elderberries are dioecious, both male and female at the same time, and may be semi-self fertile but it is best to plant at least two for cross pollination and the heaviest crops. This is an easy to grow native that makes a nice large informal screen or...

An easy and sometimes vigorous groundcover or container plant that remains evergreen in mild winter climates. Found naturally throughout much of the southern half of the US from east to west.

Plant it at the back of the border in small to large groupings for a wonderful effect and the butterflies will love you for it as well. Drought tolerant once well established but will enjoy average moisture in a garden setting.

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...

The Lace-Leaf Vitex is considered by many to be the most hardy of the Chaste Trees. Beautifully cut medium green deeply cut lacy foliage that is reminiscent of the delicately cut foliage of some Japanese Maples adorns this vigorous 'Chaste Tree'.

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.

An endless display of huge purple tubular flowers that emerge from dark colored calyxes are borne from spring to frost on this vigorous growing hybrid Salvia. Salvias are considered the #1 plant for Hummingbirds with their tubular flowers designed for...

The Butterfly Series Pentas have been selected as a 2012 Louisiana Super Plant! The flowers of Pentas will attract butterflies and other nectar loving creatures to your gardens throughout summer.

In the northern most portions of their range, zones 5 and 6, they should be provided with a deep winter mulch. Did we mention that it doesn't flop like older cultivars? Super easy and tough.

Large spikes of purple-blue fragrant flowers, reportedly to 18'' long, are borne in summer and are held atop the soft green fragrant foliage. A large deciduous, drought tolerant shrub with an upright to spreading habit.

Early Bird Gold was selected from a stand of Goldstrum Rudbeckia and inherits all of that award winning perennial's attributes yet it flowers continuously over a much longer period.

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

* Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly. It merits consideration for cultivation in forest areas.

Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped with yellow. Highly drought tolerant. Attracts butterflies. Ideal for cut-flowers. Deer resistant. Winner of the prestigous 2005 Fleuroselect Gold Medal!

Selfheal can be used to good effect spilling over walls or even in containers if you feel you need to contain it. It is somewhat resistant to drought once it is well-established although it will likely flower best with average water.