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Fill your garden with plants hummingbirds and butterflies love, and your garden will be completely irresistible to them.  Plant your garden with the best hummingbird  and butterfly attracting plants, and be fascinated by the beauty and behavior of hummingbirds and butterflies!  It is so easy to add fascinating life and color to your garden!

 

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Agastache cana 'Purple Pygmy'

(Hyssop)

 
 

$5.50

Nicely compact perennial.  Zones 5-10.  Full sun to mostly sunny.  Blooms midsummer through fall.  Grows 16" tall and wide.  Blooms are on 6"-8" long wands.  Deep pinkish purple, bubblegum and camphor scented blossoms readlly draw the butterflies!  Favorite of the Red Admiral, Common Buckeye, and Pipevine Swallowtail! 

 
 
 

Agastache foeniculum

(Blue Giant Hyssop)

 

 

$4.50

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Erect branches of mint-and-licorice-scented, medium green leaves ending in fuzzy spikes of small lavender flowers.  The native perennial grows 3-5 feet tall and 1 foot wide.  The flowers are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.  One of the Common Buckeye's favorite nectar plants!  This plant will NOT tolerate wet soil, especially in winter.  Full sun to part shade.  USDA Hardiness Zones 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

 
 
 

 

Alcea rosea 'New Wine'

(Hollyhock)

 

$4.45 

 

Biennial.  USDA Hardy Zones 2-9.  Bright red-pink flowers on 8' tall plants. Full sun.  Blooms mid-summer to early fall.  Attractive to bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds!  Host plant for Painted Lady, West Coast Lady, Northern White Skipper, and Common Checkered Skipper!

 
 
 

 

Aquilegia Barlow 'Bordeaux Wine'

(Columbine)

 

$6.50

 

 

 

Double wine-red bell-shaped flowers on 18-24" stems and very lacy foliage.  Spreading 24 inches.  Drought tolerant plant blooms April-May.  Prefers light shade and well-drained soil.  Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. 

 

 
  

Aquilegia oxysepala

(Oriental Columbine)

 

$6.50

 

Flowers have creamy inside petals and plum outer petals!  Grows 24"-36" tall and blooms spring and summer.  Sun or partial shade.  Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds!

 
 
  

Asclepias curassavica

(Bloodflower) 

 

$5.50

 

Beautiful heads of brilliant scarlet and vibrant orange flowers borne in clusters atop 18"-36" tall upright tender perennial with spiraling lanceolate leaves.  Blooms all summer.  Sun/part shade.  Perennial Zones 8-10.  Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds!  Monarch and Queen butterflies seek milkweeds as host plants.

 
 
  

 

Buddleia davidii

(Butterfly Bush)

$7.00 

 

6'-12' tall with 4'-15' spread.  Leaves are lance-shaped and grayish-green underneath.  Blooms can be purple, pink, white, or red with orange throats.  Full sun, well-drained soil.  USDA hardiness 5-10. Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees! 

 
 
  

 

Buddleia davidii

(Royal Red Butterfly Bush)

 

$7.00

Deep colored wine red flowers and deep green foliage.   Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees!

 
 
  

 

Cleome spinosa 'Violet'

(Spider Flower)

 

Annual.  3'-5' tall, topped with huge stunning 3"-6" rich deep violet flower clusters with spidery stamens; palm-like leaves.  New blooms daily from June to frost.  Flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds! 

 
 
 

 

Ipomoea lobata

(Spanish Flag)

 
 

$5.95

Annual vine.  Grows 15' tall with arching sprays of crimson tubular flowers that fade to butter yellow.  Rich, bronzey-purple new growth turns deep green with age.  Full sun to partial shade.  Blooms late summer into early fall. Attracts bess, butterflies, and hummingbirds!

 
 
   

 Ipomoea quamoclit

(Cypress Vine)

 

$3.95

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Annual.  15'-20' twining vine with finely cut leaves and star-shaped red flowers.  Blooms late spring into early fall.  Zones 5b-11.  Sun or partial shade.  One of the best plants for attracting hummingbirds; also attracts bees and butterflies! 

 
 
   

 

Ipomoea sloteri

(Cardinal Climber)

 

$3.95

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Annual climber, grows 10'-15' with finely-cut emerald green foliage.  Masses of bright red trumpet-shaped flowers from early summer to frost.  Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds! 

 
 
   

Liatris spicata

(Blazing Star Gayfeather) 

$5.00

 

Brilliant 12"-48" tall purple flower spikes open from the top down. Blooms in summer.  Full sun native perennial.  Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds!   

 
   

Lilium superbum

(Turk's Cap Lily)

 

 

$6.75

 

Native perennial grows 3' tall with bright orange flowers with reddish-brown spots and green star in the center.  The flowers are pendulent and the the petals curve backwards.  Blooms July through September. Hummingbirds, butterflies, and moths are attracted to this lily!

 
 
 

Lychnis chalcedonica

(Maltese Cross)

 

$4.98

 

Loose clumps grow 2'-3' tall; upright stems are hairy and coarse.  Excellent mid-green 2"-4" leaves.  Clusters of up to 50 bright scarlet orange-red 3"-4" flowers in dense terminal heads.  Prefers full sun and light, well-drained soil.  Hardy in Zones 3-10.  Attractive to butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds! 

 
 
   

 Malva sylvestris 'Zebrina'

(French Hollyhock)

 

$6.50

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Huge 3" pinkish-purple flowers have raspberry-purple markings.  Flowers cover the plant from early summer until frost.  Grows 36"-48" tall and 18"-24" wide.  Zones 5-8.  Well-drained soil. Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies!  Host plant for West Coast Lady, Tropical Checkered Skipper, and Common Sootywing.

 
 
 

Mimulus aurantiacus puniceus

(Red Monkeyflower) 

 

$5.95

2' tall and 2' wide native freely branched subshrub.  Blooms mid-winter into summer.  Must withhold all water in the summer.  Brick red tubular flowers.  Full sun to partial shade. Hummingbirds love them and larval host for Checkerspot and Common Buckeye butterflies!

 
 
   

 

Monarda 'Bergamo'

$6.50

 

Full sun.  20" tall, light green foliage, dark purple flowers.  Blooms late spring to late summer. 

 
 
   

 Monarda didyma 'Jacob Cline'

(Bee Balm)

$6.50

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Perennial; grows 4' tall.  USDA Hardy Zones 3-9.  Full sun to partial shade.  Aromatic foliage and square stems.  Blooms mid- to late summer with 3" deep scarlet tubular flowers with a tinge of blue.  Flowers are held in dense, 2-layered whorls up to 4" across.  Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds! 

 
 
   

Salvia canariensis

 (Canary Island Sage)

 

$6.50

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Tender perennial shrub sends up 6-foot white-furred stems with long, felted, arrow-shaped leaves and topped, summer to frost, with plumes of purplish-violet flowers clasped by red-tipped calyxes. It grows up to 4 feet wide.  Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds!
 

 
 
   

Salvia coccinea

(Scarlet Sage) 

 

$4.95

 

Bright red 1" long showy flowers growing in whorls along the stem.  2'-3' tall native with 1"-2" triangular leaves, blooms in full sun from early summer to first frost.  Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies! 

 
 
   

Salvia guarantica

(Black Anise or Sapphire Sage)

 

$5.99

Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies!  1"-2" tubular and open parrot-beak blossoms of cobalt blue with black calyces and nearly black stems. 3'-4' tall and 3' wide, spreading rhizomitously.  Prefers moist, well draining soil and bright shade.  Tender perennial zone 8.  Perennial zones 9-10. Deer resistant.

 
 
  Scabiosa atropurpurea

(Pincushion Flower)

 

 

Perennial zones 9-11.  Annual elsewhere. Grows 2'-3' tall.  Full sun to partial shade.  A deep red sweetly-scented flower on top of a tall sturdy stem.  Attracts hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies! 

 
 
 

Tithonia rotundifolia 'Torch'

Mexican Sunflower 

$3.95 

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Vivid red or orange-red dahlia-like flowers from mid-summer on. Dark green, lobed attractive leaves. Grows to 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide.

 

 
 

Zinnia elegans

(California Giant Zinnia)

 
 

Annual.  Grows 36"-48" tall.  Large 4"-6" flowers bloom from early summer through fall until first frost.  Prefers rich, deep, well-drained soil.  Attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies (from large swallowtails to fast-flying skippers).