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Monarch Butterfly Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts Monarchs and all other butterflies to the garden. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering...
Illinois
Bloomington
Sweet William
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Grows 6'' tall. Mixed colors only. Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance. Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red,...
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Season Color: Spring, Summer
  • Colors: Dark Red, Pink, Red, White
  • Zones: 3-9
Illinois
Bloomington
Black-Eyed Susan
Prices start at : 6.99 USD / each

Great cut flower. Drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummbingbirds, for a rain garden. It blooms from early summer until frost. They are insect and disease free and resistant to drought and deer.
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Genus: Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
  • Colors: Black, Yellow
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Illinois
Bloomington
Pink Honeysuckle
Prices start at : 4.29 USD / each

The flowers have same fragrance as honeysuckle vines. Later, brilliant red berries appear that last all summer and throughout the winter. It is quite hardy, disease-resistant, and gives year round beauty.
  • Colors: Pink
  • Season Color: Spring, Summer
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Genus: Lonicera tatarica
  • Max Height (feet): 10
Illinois
Bloomington
Firefly Heather
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

In the fall and winter, the foliage is bright red. In late summer, lots of purple-pink flowers open up to make a stunning contrast with the foliage. Firefly Heather has been awarded a winner of Britains prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of...
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Zones: 4-6
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 2
  • Colors: Pink, Yellow
Illinois
Bloomington
3-N-1 Rose of Sharon Tree
Prices start at : 6.00 USD / each

Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall. Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care. An excellent source for cut flowers. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different colors:...
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Spread: 6-8'
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Colors: Purple, Red, White
  • Max Height (feet): 10
Illinois
Bloomington
Perennial Collection
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

Includes: 3 each of Black-Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower.
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Colors: Black, Pink, Yellow
  • Genus: Echinacea purpurea & Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
Illinois
Bloomington
Mixed Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 3.88 USD / each

This plant is a main stay of the perennial border. These plants are deer and drought resistant. Plant 4-8' apart in full sun. A fragrant friend of butterflies and hummingbirds. This keeps it manageable and promotes new bloom shoots.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Colors: Mixed
Illinois
Bloomington
Purple Coneflower
Prices start at : 4.49 USD / each

The Purple Coneflowers bloom from mid-summer to fall on 2-3 foot stems. Drought and deer resistant, attracts butterflies, great cut flower. Charming 5'' purple daisy-like blooms with orange-brown raised centers.
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Genus: Echinacea purpurea
Illinois
Bloomington
Shasta Daisy
Prices start at : 4.99 USD / each

Choice one-year-old field-grown plants. Will bloom again in late summer if spring blossoms are cut off. They grow well in sun or light shade. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July.
  • Zones: 4-9
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Colors: White
  • Genus: Leucanthemum superbum
  • Season Color: Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Arizona Sun Dwarf Gaillardia
Prices start at : 6.49 USD / each

Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun. Ideal for cut-flowers. Highly drought tolerant. Winner of the prestigous 2005 Fleuroselect Gold Medal! Deer resistant. Grow 12-16'' tall. Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped...
  • Colors: Orange, Red, Yellow
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Max Height (feet): 12-16"
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Illinois
Bloomington
Crownvetch
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Grows 12-24'' tall. Lacy, fern-like, deep green foliage compliments the beautiful pink and white blooms that start in June and bloom continually until September each year without replanting.
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Spread: 24''
  • Genus: Coronilla varia
  • Colors: Pink
  • Max Height (feet): 12-24"
Illinois
Bloomington
Arizona Red Shades Gaillardia
Prices start at : 5.99 USD / each

Once established requires little care. Perfect for container planting with its full, well-branched, green foliage. Deer resistant. Plant 10-12” apart in full sun. Masses of large, crimson-red, flowers from summer to fall! This exciting new variety has...
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Genus: Gaillardia aristata ‘Arizona Red Shades'
  • Spread: 10-12''
  • Colors: Red
Illinois
Bloomington
Catmint
Prices start at : 5.00 USD / each

Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Plant in full sun. Aromatic gray-green foliage. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent.
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Colors: Blue, Lavender
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Spread: 24"
  • Genus: Nepeta faassenii 'Walker's Low'
Illinois
Bloomington
Red Royal Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 3.99 USD / each

Drought tolerant. Plant in full to partial sun. Deer resistant. This spectacular cultivar of butterfly bush is valued for its intense, deeply colored wine-red flowers. The fragrant, long panicles are showy from June to September and attracts loads of...
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Genus: Buddleia davidii 'Royal Red'
  • Colors: Red
  • Spread: 4-5'
Illinois
Bloomington
Rose of Sharon Hedge
Prices start at : 5.29 USD / each

These hardy, erect-branching shrubs will grow 5-10' tall for an informal privacy screen or can be trimmed for a neat, colorful hedge. Rose of Sharon Hedge is a practical, lovely frame for your landscape.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Spread: 5-7'
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 10
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
Illinois
Bloomington
Bi-Color Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 5.00 USD / each

Grows 6-8' tall. It is an excellent attractant for butterflies and hummingbirds. Drought and deer resistant. A breakthrough in color! Bi-color is the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom.
  • Genus: Buddleia x weyeriana 'Bicolor'
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Spread: 4-6'
Illinois
Bloomington
3-N-1 Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of hummingbirds. Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length.
  • Genus: Buddleia davidii
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Illinois
Bloomington
Bee Insect Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts natues's hardest workers to the garden. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering this...
Illinois
Bloomington
Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich...
  • Common Name: Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle
  • Germination: 91%
  • Genus: Echinops
  • Purity: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Echinops sphaerocephalus
  • Germination Test Type: cut
New York
Locke
Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich...
  • Purity: 98%
  • Germination: 91%
  • Botanical Name: Echinops sphaerocephalus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 39
  • Height: 5-6 feet
  • Genus: Echinops
New York
Locke
Virginia Snake Root, Virginia Snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria
Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail...
  • Height: 20 inches
  • Species: serpentaria
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 3
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination: 23%
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.
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Common Name: Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Botanical Name: Scabiosa ochroleuca
  • Family: Dipsacaceae
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.
  • Common Name: Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions
  • Lot#: 9401
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
New York
Locke
Virginia Snake Root, Virginia Snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria
Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and as a result is becoming uncommon in the wild. * Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail...
  • Botanical Name: Aristolochia serpentaria
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Family: Aristolochiaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: serpentaria
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 3
New York
Locke
Columnar Buckthorn, Tallhedge Frangula alnus     - Rhamnus frangula   Columnaris
Price : CALL

* This variety is upright growing, very columnar. * The cultivar 'Tallhedge' has been selected for hedging. The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose.
  • Height: 20ft
  • Family: Rhamnaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Botanical Name: Frangula alnus
New York
Locke
Late Lilac, Villous Lilac Syringa villosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Habit and Form an deciduous shrub dense, rounded habit ascending branches, erect 6' to 10' tall 4' to 10' wide medium texture moderate growth rate * White or rosy-lilac flowers in 3-7" clusters, often several to each branch tip, in May; flower fragrance,...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 73
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Purity: 98%
  • Quantity: 1.49 lb
  • Species: villosa
New York
Locke