Butterfly Flower Plant|Butterfly Plants

If you love butterflies, a butterfly flower plant will bring them right to your yard and garden. This is a partial butterfly garden plant list.

Royal Red Butterfly Bush - The Butterfly Bush Royal Red, Buddleia Royal Red, is not quite a true red color, but purple-red flowers are borne on this beautiful upright growing shrub. It is a vigorous growing shrub that boasts purple-red flowers from mid-summer and is a butterfly magnet. This bush flowers summer and fall and is easy to grow. Plant it near a path or patio and the shrub will provide a delightful fragrance for you, too. It's generally pest-free. This plant blooms on new growth and should be pruned back to the ground in spring.
 
 Butterfly Blue Delphium - The Delphinium Butterfly Blue, Delphinium grandiflora, has a wonderful true sky blue flower that reaches a height of 10 inches and a plant spread of 15-18 inches. This deep, gentian-blue trumpet shaped flower is a great contrast with is forest-green slender foliage, blooming early to mid summer. A must for any cottage garden, remove spent heads to produce more growth throughout the season. Try Butterfly Blue with Hibiscus µBlue River II or Leucanthemum Becky Daisy.
 

White Butterfly Bush - The White Butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii 'Alba', is easily grown in average, medium wet, well-drained soil in full sun. Even if plants do not die to the ground in winter, they usually grow more vigorously, produce superior flowers and maintain a better shape if cut to the ground in late winter each year. Removal of spent flower spikes during the growing season will encourage additional bloom, but consider leaving final blooms in place to facilitate reseeding.
 

Claret Purple Butterfly Bush - The Purple Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii 'ile de France', is a butterfly magnet. This bush flowers summer and fall and is easy to grow. With a name like Butterfly Bush you might expect a plant to be attractive to butterflies. In fact, it's more than attractive; it's a magnet for all the butterflies that pass through your garden seeking nectar. Butterflies and bees will flock to the honey-scented blossoms, whose dilute nectar is sweetest in midday sun. Plant it near a path or patio and the shrub will provide a delightful fragrance for you, too. It's generally pest-free.
 

 Honeycomb Butterfly Bush - The Butterfly Bush Honeycomb, Buddleia Honeycomb, is a beautiful yellowing flowering variety of butterfly bush. This bush flowers summer and fall and is easy to grow. In fact, it's more than attractive; it's a magnet for all the butterflies that pass through your garden seeking nectar. Plant it near a path or patio and the shrub will provide a delightful fragrance for you, too. It's generally pest-free. This plant blooms on new growth and should be pruned back to the ground in spring.
 

Pink Delight Butterfly Bush - The Butterfly Bush Pink Delight, Buddleia Pink Delight, has fragrant, deep pink flowers on a compact growing butterfly bush. The leaves are grayish green to add interest. It is a vigorous growing shrub that boasts deep pink flowers from mid-summer and is a butterfly magnet. This bush flowers summer and fall and is easy to grow. Plant it near a path or patio and the shrub will provide a delightful fragrance for you, too. It's generally pest-free. This plant blooms on new growth and should be pruned back to the ground in spring.
 

Butterfly Blue Scabiosa - The Scabiosa Butterfly Blue, Scabiosa columbaria, also know as the Pincushion Flower, has wonderful 2" lavender-blue flowers that bloom from June to October. Butterfly Blue is a reminiscent of a pincushion full of pins. With its gray-green foliage, it has a plant height of 12 inches and a spread of 12-18 inches. It is also disease resistant. Scabiosa Butterfly Blue was name Perennial Plant of the Year in 2000, and one can see why. It will do excellent for front-of-the-border areas, with Coreopsis Moonbeam, Dianthus Bath's Pink, in mass plantings or as cut flowers.
 

 Black Knight Butterfly Bush - The Butterfly Bush Black Knight, Buddleia Black Knight, is a vigorous growing shrub that boasts dark purple flower from mid-summer and is a butterfly magnet. This bush flowers summer and fall and is easy to grow. With a name like Butterfly Bush you might expect a plant to be attractive to butterflies. Plant it near a path or patio and the shrub will provide a delightful fragrance for you, too. It's generally pest-free. This plant blooms on new growth and should be pruned back to the ground in spring.

Perennial Plants and Flowers Daylily

Daylilies come in any colors such as yellow, pink, burgundy and orange.  You can find daylilies growing wild on the side the road in many areas of the country.  They are great to have in your garden and each one can produce up to 75 blossoms from a single plant.

Your daylilies will grow in almost any kind of soil but they will give you stronger blooms if you use organic matter in your soil.  Plant them in full shade to get the best results from your plants but the daylily will still produce blooms in as little a four hour of sunlight each day.  The height of this plant varies from around two feet to as high as four feet.  Check the package to make sure you select the right heights for your gardening plans.

  
Daylilies bloom in the summer and as soon as your daylily has finished producing blooms, you can divide them to get your new plants.   Plant the new plants in full sun to make them stronger. 

How to Store Your Left-Over Seeds

I’m sure you have some seeds left over every year when you get through planting your garden(s).  The way you store these seeds will determine if you are able to get the seeds to produce when you do plant them.  

Seeds that are poorly stored  - in warm, moist conditions – will most likely be diseased and they will not give you the harvest that is expected.  It is best to store your unused seed in an airtight container and put in a cool, dry place as soon as you can. 

They will last for several years if storage is done properly.

Not all seeds have the same life span.  Some seeds last a lot longer than others.

• One to Two Years – Corn, onion, leeks, rhubarb, parsnip and parsley.

• 2 to 3 Years  – Asparagus, beets, broccoli, beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale, lettuce, okra, peas, peppers, radish, spinach, turnip and watermelon. 

• 3 to 5 Years - Tomatoes, eggplant and cucumber.

Some of the varieties may last a little longer or not as long as the times mentioned above 

When you store your seed during the winter months, keep them in a place that has humidity of 45% or less and a mean temperature of 40° to 50° F.  If they are kept in these ideal conditions your seeds will last their assigned life span and produce plentiful harvests year after year.

Most seeds, based on the number of years they will produce, can be divided into three categories;

• Short Life – The seeds of the vegetables in this category will last for a maximum of two seasons – corn, leeks, rhubarb, parsnip and parsley.

• Medium Life – These seeds will most often last from two to three years – Asparagus, beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale, lettuce, okra, peas, peppers, radish, spinach, turnip and watermelon.

• Long Life - Tomatoes, eggplant and cucumber all last three to five seasons.

Some of the varieties may last a little longer or not as long as the times mentioned above.
 
Before you order your plant seeds you should have your garden planned and you should know exactly where each plant will be planted in your garden. You should already know how many seeds you would need to accomplish your well thought out garden plans. 


The more you know about your garden before you plant your first seed, the better your  entire garden will be and the better your crop will be.  


It is best if you choose plants and vegetables that are native to your part of the country.    These native seeds will produce a better crop because they have, for centuries, adapted to that particular region.

In The Garden Let Nature Take Control

 In Japanese gardens the gardener does not put emphasis on taking control.  The gardener allows nature to take control of the situation and the garden produces that which nature intended.  By contrast, in European gardens, the gardener thrives for symmetry and tries to take control of the earth and force it to produce what is planted there.

 The two types of Japanese gardens that are the most popular are tea gardens and abstract gardens.  The abstract garden is more of a modern take of the old-fashioned Japanese gardens.  They are designed more for the intellect rather than for feeling and emotions.

When you take a stroll through a Japanese tea garden you will immediately feel the sense of peace and tranquillity that the garden was designed to give.  These tea gardens have strict guidelines that each gardener must follow when they create their garden.  Nature scenes are recreated to give off these calm and reflective moods.

You can create your own miniature Japanese garden in your own backyard to give yourself and your friends and family their own feelings of calm and peace or to inspire the intellect.  You can even transform a small space in your home into a tea garden.

Bonsai trees are excellent in your indoor or outdoor garden.