Cut Flower Butterfly Attracting Plant For Sale In Thornton

* Siberian Wallflower makes a dramatic vibrant addition to a wildflower meadow. * Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial...

* Hesperis matronalis grows 100 cm or taller, with multiple upright hairy stems. * The seed can be sprouted and added to salads. The plants have showy blooms in early to mid spring.

* Plants can be grown as an informal hedge. * The bark or leaves have been chewed by children as a treatment for sore mouth. * This is the familiar lilac seen next to every old farmhouse.

* It is a frequent component in butterfly gardens. * Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century. * Common yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that produces one to several stems (0.2 to 1m tall)...

* This plant grows in prairies, on the margins of woods, and on roadsides. * This plant is grown as an ornamental garden plant. * It is native to the central and eastern United States and Ontario in Canada.

* The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics . * Blooms are 4" in diameter and are held from May until June. The plant can reach 5-6' tall and has rough 4" long lance-shaped leaves.

* White or rosy-lilac flowers in 3-7" clusters, often several to each branch tip, in May; flower fragrance, not intense, resembles privet; very hardy; forms a dense, arching shrub with substantial branches; does well in the U.S. Midwest; native to China.

Petiole 1-3 cm, glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 3.5-12(-18) 1.5-7(-10) cm, adaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, abaxially villous, base cuneate to subrounded, apex usually acute to acuminate.

* Easily grown in a good, well-drained ordinary garden soil in a sunny position. * An annual with white, lilac, pink, maroon, and carmine flowers; easy from seed, they start flowering 6 weeks after sowing and continue until frost; native to Europe.

Stipules semicordate, large, herbaceous, margin sharply doubly serrate; petiole pubescent or subglabrous; leaf blade pinnate, with 2 pairs of lateral leaflets, abaxially densely white tomentose, sparsely pubescent, or glabrous, adaxially sparsely pubescent...

Stems with seed pods make excellent additions to dried flower arrangements. * Gomphocarpus physocarpus is a food of the caterpillars of Danaus butterflies, including the monarch butterfly.

* It is a frequent component in butterfly gardens. * Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century. * Common yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that produces one to several stems (0.2 to 1m tall)...

Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas. Flower stalks are sturdy and straight, with solitary terminal flowers, and are smooth or slightly hairy.

* Bright yellow flowers.

It is a shrub growing to 3-6 m tall, with erect branches. The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding. * Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native...

It is a shrub growing to 3-6 m tall, with erect branches. The panicles often hang limply, which is how the plant got its common name; the clusters look as though they are nodding. * Lilac flowers in nodding terminal clusters to 6"; leaves to 6"; native...

* It occurs throughout North America, in most US states and Canadian provinces. It is found in a variety of habitats, although it is not shade tolerant. Canadensis is sometimes browsed by deer and is good to fair as food for domestic livestock such as...

* Siberian Wallflower makes a dramatic vibrant addition to a wildflower meadow. * Its height of 10-18 inches makes it ideal for the front or closer portion of the meadow. * It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial...

Cultivated varieties include orange-red, pink, salmon, red, white, and scarlet, and include bi-colored varieties. Flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds and butterflies. * The plant reaches 2 to 4 ft (0.61 to 1.2 m) in height, with many branches, and...

* The oxeye daisy ( Leucanthemum vulgare , syn. * A distilled water made from the flowers is an effective eye lotion in the treatment of conjunctivitis. It is one of a number of plants to be called by the common name daisy .

In tree form, it typically grows to as much as 30' tall and 20' wide with an oval-rounded crown. May be used as a screen along property lines. * No serious insect or disease problems.

* Plants have an extensive root system and are also fairly wind tolerant, they can be planted as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion. Fruticosa grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 meters in height and spread to twice...

Cylindrical clusters (1-2" long) of tiny, fragrant, white flowers (1/8") appear on long stalks at the stem ends or upper leaf axils in late spring. Dried leaves were used as a tea substitute, albeit without caffeine, in American Revolutionary War times,...

* Nicotiana alata is a species of tobacco . It is called Winged Tobacco , Jasmine Tobacco , tanbaku , and sometimes Persian Tobacco , though the latter name is also used for Nicotiana persica .

* Dark green shiny leaves, yellow, bronzy, and red in fall; 1/3" bright red fruit, good bird food; large shrub, can be trained as a small tree; susceptible to fireblight; native to Japan, Korea, China.

Also known as hairy balls, swan plant, swan milkweed, and balloon plant. Exercise caution when harvesting. White flowers with lavender-colored centers develop into large, papery seed pods.

Many authorities have now grouped both of these red elders together under the name of Sambucus racemosa. * Sambucus racemosa, commonly known as red elder or red elderberry, is a deciduous suckering shrub which typically grows to 8-12' tall with a somewhat...