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Best Butterfly Garden Plants for a Complete Habitat

The best butterfly garden plants do two different jobs. Host plants feed caterpillars, while nectar plants feed adult…

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Bearded Iris

Iris germanica

Bearded iris are tough, sun-loving perennials grown from shallow rhizomes, not deep bulbs.

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Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum morifolium

Garden mums are the compact chrysanthemums most people buy for fall color.

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Daffodil

Narcissus spp.

Daffodils are hardy fall-planted bulbs grown for reliable spring flowers, deer resistance, and decades of return bloom.

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Lavandula angustifolia

English Lavender

English Lavender is a woody Mediterranean subshrub grown for fragrant purple flower spikes, silvery foliage, pollinators, and…

Rosa 'Knock Out'

Knock Out Rose

Knock Out Roses are landscape shrub roses bred for repeat bloom, compact habit, and better disease resistance than many older…

Lantana camara

Lantana

Lantana supplies clusters of flowers in sunny summer beds and containers.

Liatris spicata

Liatris

Liatris, also called blazing star or gayfeather, is a hardy native perennial grown from corms for upright purple flower spikes…

Lilium spp.

Lily

True lilies are Lilium bulbs grown for tall summer stems, dramatic flowers, fragrance, and cut-flower value.

Tagetes patula

Marigold

Marigolds are warm-season annuals grown for bright flowers, easy seed starting, containers, borders, and vegetable-garden edges.