Pollinator Plants Perennials For Sun For Sale In Colorado

Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers. Remove the old flowers of Aster October Skies as they become brown and unattractive.

Planting Butterfly Weed flowers will increase your chances of attracting butterflies to your garden, especially Monarchs. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.

, commonly called purple coneflower, is a coarse, rough-hairy, herbaceous perennial that is native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods of the central to southeastern United States (Ohio to Michigan to Iowa south to Louisiana and Georgia).

Flowers bloom from late spring to late summer, sometimes with additional sporadic bloom until frost. Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5″ diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, ovate to broad-lanceolate, dark green...

It is a semi-woody plant that typically grows in a shrubby mound to 2-4' tall. Flowers appear in terminal spikes (to 4” long) in summer. Root rot commonly attacks plants grown in poorly drained soils.

We recommend feeding your Aster Divaricatus in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower buds. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks.

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Cut back Sedum Autumn Fire to within 6 inches of the ground after it has finished flowering.

Salvia May Night has deep blue spikes of flowers rise above a mound of aromatic, narrow green wrinkled foliage that blooms June – September. It can also tolerate coastal salty conditions.

May be grown in moist soils in borders as long as soils do not dry out. It grows in a wide variety of wet habitat types. * Grow in moist to wet soils in full sun to part shade. Naturalizes in optimum growing conditions by both self-seeding and creeping...

A favorite with birds, bees, and insects. Color-mad perennial groundcover rolls out a carpet of large, high-definition-color purple blooms on floriferous spikes. Flowering the first year, perennial thrives in heat and drought and thirsty soil.

It grows in woods and marshy areas. * This rhizomatous perennial grass has stems which can exceed two meters in height. The leaf blades are up to 52 centimeters long and may be hairless to hairy, with a dense coating of hairs behind the ligules.

This low-maintenance catmint keeps its blue-green, aromatic leaves neat through the summer. Awarded 2007 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association. Violet-blue spikes top this low grower, lending a soft, muted feel to the garden.

For the best results provide your Lantana with an average to well draining soil with average moisture in an area that gets 6 hours or more of sun per day. Lantana are only second to Porterweed in our garden for their ability to attract butterflies, bees,...

Another excellent introduction from Chris Hansen's breeding program! Sedums are fairly drought tolerant once well-established but will do just fine in well-drained garden soils under average moisture conditions.

This Colossal Hosta Collection includes 1 each of Empress Wu and Komodo Dragon Hosta varieties.

Rebloomer! Soft light blue petals with a sweet fragrance. Grows to 33" tall. Enjoy the blooms in the spring and again a few months later when they rebloom.

Papaver croceum, P. * A perennial poppy with 2-3" pink, red, orange, greenish, or yellow fragrant flowers; most of the leaves are basal; native to Eurasia and to North America from the Arctic to Colorado.

Jacobinia's are considered by many to be root hardy perennials even in zone 8 with protection and a mulch. Many resources suggest that they will grow in full sun and they may well do fine in northern latitudes during summer but in areas with hot summers...

Plants are reasonably drought tolerant, once established. Prefers moist, gravelly or sandy soils with good drainage. Remove faded flowers to encourage repeat blooming, or simply cut back hard after flowering is finished.

Perfect as a groundcover or border. Thrives in many types of soil and various climates. Grows only 6-8” tall and spreads quickly to 8-10”. Plant in full sun to partial shade. Flowers all summer! Prolific bloomer that begins in late spring, continues...

Grows 3-4' tall with flower plumes 5-6'. Good for cut arrangements. Bright silky flower heads adorn the foliage making a splendid backdrop all the way through winter. Plant 15-24'' apart.

Grows 36" tall. Fiesta Fall is a late blooming iris with a warm combination of amber and yeallow.

Add an exotic touch of the East to your landscape! Plant these newer, better Oriental Poppies early this fall in a sunny location. We send you field-grown, number one plants that will bloom next spring on strong stems 26''-30'' tall.

Plants are 24-28'' tall and 24-30'' wide. This native perennial puts on a wonderful mid-summer floral display of yellow flowers that are surrounded by showy lavender-pink bracts. Grows very well in poor sandy moist soil where it will gradually spread.

Add to this the raspberry red flower stalks and buds that turn into lavender blooms and you can see why this hosta is getting all the attention! Grows 10" high with 20" flower stalks in later summer.

This amazingly brilliant red coreopsis with its 1.5" flowers will be a WOW in your summer garden. The plants grow 15-18" tall and 22" wide, and can also be planted in containers as well.

A low growing spreading Sedum that produces masses of rosy pink flowers in late summer for pollinators. The Sunsparkler Sedums were bred by Chris Hansen to produce hybrids with intense foliage colors, excellent vigor, and super tough that are suited for...