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.Rectangular Butterfly Garden

 

 

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.Pie-shape Butterfly Garden

 

 

 

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.Corner Butterfly Garden

 

 

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Plant Descriptions

Name:
Agastache 'Rock Anise'
Botanical:
Agastache
Height x Width: 24- 36" H x 18-24" W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Orange
Bloom Time: Summer through Fall!
Water: Drought tolerant
Features: Plants are covered with salmon-orange flowers from June to frost!
Companions: Other butterfly attracting perennials.
 

Name:
Japanese Aster
Botanical:
Kalimeris
Height x Width: 18-36" H x 18-30" W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Time: May to Frost!
Water: Drought tolerant
Features: Plants are covered with white flowers from May to frost!
Companions: Other butterfly attracting perennials.
 

Name:
Butterfly Bush
Botanical:
Buddleia
Height x Width: 6-8' H x 4-5' W
Exposure: Full Sun is preferred
Bloom Color: Purple, Pink, Blue, Yellow, Wine, or White
Bloom Time: Sumer through Fall!
Water: Low
Features: Produces and abundance of flower clusters from June to frost that are butterfly magnets! Excellent specimen in the perennial garden or around patios and decks. Very Drought tolerant.
Companions: Other Butterfly Bushes, Lantanas, Yarrows, Agastache, Asters, Salvias, Tall Verbena, and other butterfly attracting plants.
 

Name:
Caryopteris - Blue Mist Shrub
Botanical:
Caryopteris
Height x Width: 24-36" H x 24-30" W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Blue
Bloom Time: Mid-Summer through Fall!
Water: Drought tolerant
Features: Plants are covered with fuzzy blue flowers from June to frost!
Companions: Other butterfly attracting perennials.
 

Name:
Coneflowers
Botanical:
Echinacea
Height x Width: 18-30" H x 24" W
Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Bloom Color: Purple, White, Yellow, or Orange
Bloom Time: Summer through Fall
Water: Low
Features: Purple or white flowers with orange-brown center cones are produced in abundance atop sturdy stems. Butterflies love them. Very drought tolerant.
Companions: Yarrows, Butterfly Weed, Butterfly Bushes, Daisies, Rudbeckias, Coreopsis, Daylilies, Salvias, Sedums, Setcresia, Verbenas, Pincushion Flower, Veronicas, and many more!
 

Name:
Coreopsis 'Moonbeam'
Botanical:
Coreopsis verticillata
Height x Width: 18-24" H x 18-24" W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Pale Yellow
Bloom Time: June to October
Water: Low
Features: Masses of pale yellow daisy-like flowers are produced during summer and into fall. Very attractive thinly-cut foliage is mounding. Sheering off faded flowers will allow for successive blooming.
Companions: Tall Garden Phlox, Butterfly Weed, Daisies, Coneflower, other Coreopsis, Daylilies, Salvias, Sedums, Pincushion Flower,Setcresia, Verbenas, Veronicas, and more!
 

 

Name:
Daisy 'Ryan's'
Botanical:
Chrysanthemum superbum
Height x Width: 2-3' H x 2' W
Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Time: All Summer
Water: Low to average
Features: The best of the best Shasta Daisies. Three and a half inch daisies are produced in abundance on sturdy stems that rise above the thick, dark green foliage. Forms massive clumps in the garden. An excellent cut flower!
Companions: Other Daisies, Coneflowers, Coreopsis, Veronicas, Salvias, Sedums, Pincushion Flower, Butterfly Bush, Lantanas, Agastache, Yarrows, Daylilies, Liliums, Iris, and many many more!
 

Name:
'Goldstrum' Daisy - 'Black Eyed Susan'
Botanical:
Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum'
Height x Width: 18-24" H x 24" W
Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Bloom Color: Yellow with Black eye-cone
Bloom Time: Summer
Water: Low
Features: The 3-4" diameter yellow flowers with a black center cones are produced in abundance. An easily grown and long-lived species. Excellent cut flower. 1999 Perennial of The Year! A must inevery landscape or garden.
Companions: Yarrows, Coreopsis, Daisies, Coneflowers, Agastache, Artemesia, Guara, Daylilies, Japanese Aster, Malva, Tall Phlox, Salvias, Veronicas, Sedums, Verbenas, and many more!
 

Name:
Lantana's
Botanical:
Lantana
Height x Width: 2-6' H x 4-8' W depending on variety
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: 'Miss Huff' and 'Pink Caprice' pictured
Bloom Time: May to Frost!
Water: Very drought tolerant
Features: Unrivaled for attracting butterflies! The flower clusters are produced in abundance from late spring thru fall. Leave plenty of room in the garden for these fast growing, mounding perennial shrubs. Very drought tolerant. A must in every garden or landscape! Most definitely a Wilson Bros Favorite!! Prune back in Spring when new growth begins to emerge. Fall pruning insures death.
Companions: Yarrows, Butterfly Bush, Ice Plant, Sedums, Ornamental Grasses, Junipers, Barberries, Yucca, Coneflowers, Rudbeckias, Pincushion Flower, and many other plants that attract butterflies and are drought tolerant.
 

Name:
Pincushion Flower - (Pink or Blue)
Botanical:
Scabiosa
Height x Width: 12-18" H x 18" W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Blue
Bloom Time: April to Frost!
Water: Drought tolerant once established
Features: Multitudes of vivid-blue flowers, resembling pin cushions, are produced from April to frost on this low, mounding, very drought tolerant perennial. Attracts butterflies and an excellent cut flower! A must in every garden!
Companions: Yarrows, Agastaches, Artemesia, Butterfly Weed, Butterfly Bush, Daisies, Coreopsis, Coneflowers, Guara, Daylilies, Japanese Aster, Phlox, Knockout Rose, Sedum, Salvia, Veronicas, and many more!
 

Name:
Garden Phlox - (Tall)
Botanical:
Phlox paniculata
Height x Width: 2-3' H x 2' W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Assorted - ('David' top right)
Bloom Time: Summer into Fall if deadheaded
Water: Low to average...water during prolonged drought
Features: Large vividly-colored flower clusters are produced in abundance atop clumps of dark green foliage on vertical stems. Underused in our area. Very eye catching and a must in any sunny garden or landscape! Mildew resistant. Some are fragrant and good cut flowers.
Companions: Yarrows, Agastache, Artemesia, Hollyhocks, Coreopsis, Daisies, Butterfly Bush, Coneflowers, Gaura, Daylilies, Lantanas, Japanese Aster, Malva, Russian Sage, Salvias, Veronicas, Sedums, and more!
 

 

Name:
Sedum 'Autumn Joy' or 'Autumn Fires'
Botanical:
Sedum
Height x Width: 30" H x 36" W
Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Bloom Color: Coral Pinkish-Red
Bloom Time: Late Summer into Fall
Water: Very drought tolerant
Features: Large cauliflower-shaped flower heads rise above very attractive gray-green succulent foliage. Eye-catching in the perennial or rock garden, or anywhere in the sunny, dry landscape. Very drought tolerant. Attracts butterflies.
Companions: Other Sedums, Agastache, Yarrows, Hens and Chicks, Coreopsis, Daisies, Coneflowers, Daylilies, Guara, Japanese Aster, Lantanas, Butterfly Bush, Yucca, Barberries, Ornamental Grasses, Junipers, and many more!
 

Name:
Spiderwort
Botanical:
Tradescantia
Height x Width: 18-24" H x 24" W
Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Bloom Color: Assorted
Bloom Time: May to Frost
Water: Low to moderate
Features: Attractive frosty blue foliage contrasts nicely with the purple flowers produced from May to frost! Attract butterflies.
Companions: Yarrows, Agastache, Butterfly Weed, Coreopsis, Daisies, Coneflowers, Guara, Daylilies, Iris, Japanese Aster, Lantana, Malva, Russian Sage, Salvias, Veronicas, Sedums, and mnay more.
 

Name:
Stoke's Aster
Botanical:
Stokesia 'Blue Danube'
Height x Width: 18-24" H x 24" W
Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Bloom Color: Blue
Bloom Time: May to Frost
Water: Low to moderate
Features: Large, beautiful Attract butterflies.
Companions: Yarrows, Agastache, Butterfly Weed, Coreopsis, Daisies, Coneflowers, Guara, Daylilies, Iris, Japanese Aster, Lantana, Malva, Russian Sage, Salvias, Veronicas, Sedums, and mnay more.
 

 

Name:
Verbena 'Homestead Purple'
Botanical:
Verbena
Height x Width: 8" H x Apreading to 3'
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Time: March to Frost!
Water: Low
Features: Purple flower clusters are produced in abundance on this trailing peennial. Excellent as an edging in the perennial garden or beds and islands. A butterfly magnet! Flowers from April to fros,t on and off. Very drought tolerant.
Companions: Yarrows, Agastache, Butterfly Weed, Artemesia, Daisies, Coneflowers, Coreopsis, Guara, Japanese Aster, Daylilies, Lantana, Butterfly Bush, Malva, Russian Sage, Salvias, Veronicas, Knockout Roses, Rudbeckias, Sedums, and many more!
 

 

Name:
Veronica 'Goodness Grows'
Botanical:
Veronica
Height x Width: 18" H x 18" W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Violet-Blue
Bloom Time: May to Frost
Water: Drought tolerant
Features: An introduction from our friends at Goodness Grows. Spikes of beautiful violet-blue flowers above neat and compact foliage from May to frost! An excellent performer and great cut flower! Definitely a Wilson Bros. Favorite. A must in every garden!
Companions: Yarrows, Agastache, Butterfly Bushes, Coreopsis, Daisies, Coneflowers, Dianthus, Guara, Daylilies, Japanese Aster, Malva, Russian Sage, Lamb's Ear, Sedums, Pincushion Flower, Verbenas, and many more!
 

 

Name:
Yarrow
Botanical:
Achillea
Height x Width: 12-24" H x 24"+ W
Exposure: Full Sun
Bloom Color: Pink, red, or yellow
Bloom Time: Summer through fall
Water: Drought tolerant
Features: Colorful flower clusters atop tall stems rise above ferny green or grey foliage. Butterflies love it. A great cut flower too.
Companions: Agastache, Butterfly Bushes, Coreopsis, Daisies, Coneflowers, Dianthus, Guara, Daylilies, Japanese Aster, Malva, Russian Sage, Lamb's Ear, Sedums, Pincushion Flower, Verbenas, and many more!

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