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Monarch Butterfly Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts Monarchs and all other butterflies to the garden. Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination.
Illinois
Bloomington
Sweet William
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red, pink, white, and bi-colors. Mixed colors only. Grows 6'' tall.
  • Max Height (feet): 6-8"
  • Genus: Dianthus barbatus
  • Spread: 12"
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Season Color: Spring, Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Purple Coneflower
Prices start at : 4.49 USD / each

Purple Coneflowers are practically indestructible because they are sub-zero hardy and withstand heat, grow in dry locations and love poor soil. Drought and deer resistant, attracts butterflies, great cut flower.
  • Colors: Purple
  • Spread: 18-24''
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Season Color: Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Shasta Daisy
Prices start at : 4.99 USD / each

Will bloom again in late summer if spring blossoms are cut off. It is an easy to grow perennial that spreads fast. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July.
  • Max Height (feet): 30"
  • Colors: White
  • Zones: 4-9
  • Spread: 18-24"
  • Season Color: Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Arizona Sun Dwarf Gaillardia
Prices start at : 6.49 USD / each

Deer resistant. Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun. For a rain garden. Grow 12-16'' tall. Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped with yellow.
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Genus: Gaillardia aristata 'Arizona Sun'
  • Spread: 10-12''
Illinois
Bloomington
Crownvetch
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Grows so thick, it chokes out even persistent weeds and requires no mowing or care. Grows 12-24'' tall. Plant 2' apart. One plant covers four square feet. Lovely pink/white blooms to beautify slopes and problem areas from June through September.
  • Genus: Coronilla varia
  • Season Color: Spring, Summer, Fall
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
Illinois
Bloomington
Arizona Red Shades Gaillardia
Prices start at : 5.99 USD / each

Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Great for cut flowers. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has the same wonderfully compact, uniform growth habit as Arizona Sun Gaillardia, but in the exciting color of...
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Spread: 10-12''
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 9-12"
  • Genus: Gaillardia aristata ‘Arizona Red Shades'
Illinois
Bloomington
Catmint
Prices start at : 5.00 USD / each

Aromatic gray-green foliage. Plant in full sun. Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent.
  • Colors: Blue, Lavender
  • Zones: 3-8
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Genus: Nepeta faassenii 'Walker's Low'
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
Illinois
Bloomington
Bee Insect Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts natues's hardest workers to the garden. Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination.
Illinois
Bloomington
Buddleia, Queen of Hearts
★★★★★
Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

Buddleia is commonly known as butterfly bush, a deciduous shrub native to China. It is noted for its bushy habit, arching stems, showy, fragrant flowers and vigorous growth. It typically grows to 6-12' tall with a spread to 4-15' wide when not killed...
  • Life Cycle: Perennial
  • Height: 3-4 feet
  • Genus: Buddleia
  • Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
  • Zone: 5-10
  • Spread: 5-6 feet
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Butterfly Bush, Nanho Purple
★★★★★
Prices start at : 13.99 USD / 1 Plant

Blossoms are great for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds and as cut flowers. Flowers are fragrant and lavender-purple and contrast with gray-green foliage. It grows best in full sun but will tolerate some shade and under most conditions will bloom...
  • Sun: Full Sun
  • Genus: Buddleia
  • Height: 60-72 inches
  • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders, Cut Flowers
  • Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
  • Resistant To: Deer
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Buddleia, Pugster Pink
Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

The small size of this shrub makes it excellent for patio containers. This is unique selection of butterfly bush has a small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long.
  • Sun: Full Sun
  • Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
  • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
  • Zone: 5-9
  • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
  • Resistant To: Deer
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Buddleia, Pugster Blue
Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

The small size of this shrub makes it excellent for patio containers. This is unique selection of butterfly bush has a small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long.

2-3 feet

    • Life Cycle: Perennial
    • Genus: Buddleia
    • Sun: Full Sun
    • Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
    • Height: 2-3 feet
    • Spread: 2-3 feet
    Pennsylvania
    Warminster
    Buddleia, Miss Molly
    ★★★★★
    Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

    This long-blooming beauty produces the deepest wine-dark pink to red flowers of any butterfly bush you have ever seen. Prune to 1/3 original height in early spring for the best display.
    • Spread: 48-60 inches
    • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
    • Genus: Buddleia
    • Resistant To: Drought, Heat, Humidity, Rabbit
    • Life Cycle: Perennial
    • Zone: 5-9
    Pennsylvania
    Warminster
    Buddleia, Wisteria Lane PPAF
    ★★★★★
    Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

    A glorious addition to your garden, and beacon to passing butterflies and hummingbirds. This most unusual and delightful butterfly bush infuses the back of the sunny border with colorful flair.
    • Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
    • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
    • Height: 22-24 inches
    • Zone: 5-9
    • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
    • Life Cycle: Perennial
    Pennsylvania
    Warminster
    Buddleia, Miss Violet
    ★★★★★
    Prices start at : 12.99 USD / 1 Plant

    Ever-so-easy upkeep; oblivious to high heat, blazing sun, and thirsty soil. Fragrant floriferous beacon draws an admiring entourage of hummingbirds and bees. Compact butterfly bush delivers an outsize blast of stunning rich-purple flowers.
    • Zone: 5-9
    • Sun: Full Sun
    • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
    • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
    • Spread: 48-60 inches
    • Life Cycle: Perennial
    Pennsylvania
    Warminster
    Buddleia, Glass Slippers
    ★★★★★
    Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

    Flowers are mildly fragrant, and very attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and bees. Spike-like flower clusters bloom from early summer to first frost. Buddleia, Glass Slippers is low growing, wide spreading butterfly bush covered from top to bottom...
    • Zone: 5-10
    • Sun: Full Sun
    • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
    • Genus: Buddleia
    • Spread: 5-6 feet
    • Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
    Pennsylvania
    Warminster
    Butterfly Bush, Butterfly Hybrid Mix
    ★★★★★
    Prices start at : 5.99 USD / 1 Pkt. (100 seeds)

    The seeds in this hybrid mix will produce hardy butterfly bushes that bloom their first year in purple, white, lavender or pink. Also called "summer lilacs", these butterfly bushes have a long blooming season (August into September), need little care...
    • Spread: 72-96 inches
    • Life Cycle: Perennial
    • Genus: Buddleia
    • Ornamental Use: Borders, Cut Flowers
    • Planting Time: Spring
    • Bloom Season: Fall, Summer
    Pennsylvania
    Warminster
    Tutti Fruitti Butterfly Bush
    Prices start at : 38.98 USD / Plant

    Here's why: It's not just the pretty flowers that attract the butterflies, like any bright flower. This plant is easy to grow, blooms profusely, and has that magical quality: Butterflies can't resist it.
    • ✓ Fragrant
    • ✓ Containers
    • Light Requirements: Full Sun
    • Bloom Time: Early to late summer
    • Foliage: Bushy arching stems.
    • Estimated Mature Spread: 16-22" wide
    Vermont
    Shelburne
    Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils,...
    • Collection Locale: Hungary
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Seeds Per Pound: 36,320
    • Germination: 91%
    • Family: Asteraceae
    • Lot#: 9401
    New York
    Locke
    Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils,...
    • Quantity: 1 lb
    • Germination: 91%
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
    • Lot#: 9401
    • Genus: Echinops
    • Common Name: Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle
    New York
    Locke
    Virginia Snake Root, Virginia Snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria
    Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly. It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders.
    • Purity: 99%
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Genus: Aristolochia
    • Quantity: 0.00507 lb
    • Height: 20 inches
    New York
    Locke
    Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions Scabiosa ochroleuca
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.
    • Species: ochroleuca
    • Germination: 96%
    • Collection Locale: Hungary
    • Height: 2-3 feet
    • Germination Test Type: Cut
    • Botanical Name: Scabiosa ochroleuca
    New York
    Locke
    Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions Scabiosa ochroleuca
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.
    • Genus: Scabiosa
    • Common Name: Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions
    • Seeds Per Pound: 50,000
    • Lot#: 9401
    • Collection Locale: Hungary
    • Family: Dipsacaceae
    New York
    Locke
    Virginia Snake Root, Virginia Snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria
    Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly. It is used in a number of proprietary medicines for treating skin, circulatory and kidney disorders.
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 3
    • Seeds Per Pound: 63,560
    • Genus: Aristolochia
    • Botanical Name: Aristolochia serpentaria
    • Height: 20 inches
    • Purity: 99%
    New York
    Locke
    Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
    ★★★★★
    Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 Gal

    A tough, drought-tolerant native with intense orange flowers in mid to late summer. Butterfly weed is heavily laden with nectar and pollen, making it particularly attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and beneficial insects.
    Maryland
    Bowie
    Mugwort, Common Wormwood, Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, St. John\'s Plant Artemisia vulgaris
    Price : CALL

    * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi). * Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that...
    • Height: 3-7 feet
    • Family: Asteraceae
    • Genus: Artemisia
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
    New York
    Locke
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