FEATURED POLLINATOR PLANT: Shasta Daisy, Leucanthemum
Shasta Daisy is a free flowering herbaceous perennial valued for its abundant floral display and disease resistance. It produces pure white, single daisy flowers with golden yellow centers atop a lush basal rosette of dark green leaves. Blooms for weeks, from early to late summer. The flowers are pollinated primarily by insects, including beetles, flies, wasps, and butterflies. FEATURED POLLINATOR PLANT: Blazing Star, Liatris spicata
Valued for its showy fluffy vertical flower spikes contrasting with a lush, finely textured, grassy foliage, Blazing Star is a perennial of great ornamental value. Flowers in succession from top to bottom over four weeks or more, its button-shaped, purple, rosy red or white flowers resemble blazing stars. FEATURED POLLINATOR PLANT: Joe-Pye weed 'Little Joe', Eutrochium dubium
'Little Joe' is a compact, upright perennial with purple-spotted unbranched stems boasting large dome-shaped clusters of small, pale lavender flowers in mid summer to early fall. Long-lasting blossoms are attractive to butterflies and pollinators in search of nectar. FEATURED POLLINATOR PLANT: Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata
Swamp Milkweed is an erect, clump-forming perennial prized for its brilliant clusters of fragrant, lilac-pink flowers, which bloom continuously for weeks from mid to late summer. Milkweeds are host plants for the monarch butterfly and are critical to their survival. FEATURED POLLINATOR PLANT: Salvia 'Blue Hill', Salvia x sylvestris
Salvia 'Blue Hill' forms eye-catching, compact, bushy clumps that are covered with stunning spikes of rich violet-blue flowers, appearing in early summer and lasting throughout the summer. A real magnet for butterflies, hummingbirds and bees! |
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