Create and improve the habitat for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds with these perennial pollinator plants … all grown at Little Miami Farms and ready to plant in your landscape!
Echinacea Purpurea – aka coneflower, is an outstanding cut flower and has medicinal uses; also repels deer. Blooms July-September. Available in two amazing color variations: Sombrero Tres Amigos – featuring three showy colors all in one plant. The flowers open to a peachy coral, age to a rosy pink and fade to burgundy; SunSeekers Apple Green – flower petals feature shades that mature from dark green to lemon yellow.
Magma Heuchera – aka coral bells, is a colorful perennial with bright red-pink ruffled foliage. Delicate stems of tiny pinkish-white blooms rise from this brilliant mound. Full sun/part shade; height: 18-24″; width: 24-30″
Platinum Blonde Lavender – this variety of English lavender offers the classic lavender scent we love, but with a refreshing twist of cream and green variegated leaves. Wonderful in containers or in the ground. Blooms all summer, attracting butterflies. Full sun; plant height: 12-24″; width: 18-20″
Rudbeckia Autumn Colors – large blooms with bands of deep red, bronze, orange and yellow and brown centers. Prefers moderately fertile, moist well drained soil; drought tolerant when established. Deadhead to promote new blooms; will self-seed. Deer and rabbit resistant. Height and width: 18-24″
Montauk Daisy – large, showy white flowers with bright yellow centers, blooms from late summer to fall; low maintenance and drought-tolerant once established; deer/rabbit resistant. Height and width: 18-36“
Asclepias Tuberosa – aka butterfly flower, has brilliant clusters of bright orange to yellow-orange flowers which bloom continuously throughout summer, followed by attractive seed pods in fall. Easy care, drought tolerant and deer resistant. Height and width: 18-24”
Common Milkweed – produces a profusion of extremely fragrant lavender to pink flowers in mid-summer and thrives in almost any well-drained soil. Is a host plant for Monarch butterflies! (Monarchs lay their eggs only on milkweeds and they feed on butterfly flowers)
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