Wildlife Garden Plants

This Agapanthus shoots up a tall, blue flowering spike.

Perennial with a tall flower stalk with blue flowers.

Great for training on a fence, arbor or walls, but also good as ground cover in shady woodland gardens.

A small native tree with beautiful white flowers in the early spring.  A slow to moderate grower with yellow to orange to red foliage in the fall.

This native is the result of a cross between arborea and laevis.  Nice growth habit, white flowers in the spring followed by red foliage in the fall.

Native, orange flowering, perennial that attracts butterflies and pollinators.

This understory tree is a Native and produces edible fruit.

Compact ornamental grass that provides cool-season interest with its flower heads that persist through the winter.

Compact ornamental grass that provides cool-season interest with its flower heads that persist through the winter.

Low growing Buddleia with blue flowers accented against silver foliage makes this a good choice for any landscape site with sun.

This new dwarf butterfly bush stays compact and has beautiful blue-lavender flowers.

Compact selection of butterfly bush.

Spectacular pink flowers that will bloom all season long.

Dark purple flowers accent a background of green foliage on this large, flowering plant. Will bloom continuously through the summer if spent flowers are removed.

Dark lavender flowers on a moderate growing Butterfly Bush with finer-textured foliage. A good choice for summer long interest in the landscape.

Purple berries in the fall make this native plant a showpiece in the landscape.  Easy to grow and drought tolerant.

Issai Callicarpa is a vigorous selection of Beautyberry that works well in a decidous border.

Upright, columnar Camellia with white anemone blooms.

Slightly slower-growing than the species, this cultivar has pleasing blue-green foliage.

This native wetland plant will grow in a wide range of conditions. 

This native wetland plant will grow in a wide range of conditions. 

A spreading plum yew with yellow highlighted foliage that forms a nice upright vase shape.

A medium-sized native tree frequently used as a shade tree on smaller properties.  It has long, white panicles in late spring that contrast beautifully against the back drop of the tree's dark green foliage.

Deep violet flowers cover this climbing vine during mid-summer.

A popular choice for naturalizing. Easy-to-grow shrub has fragrant, white flowers and medium-sized growth habit.

An easy to grow native that is tolerant of wet areas.  Can be effecctively used in group plantings in wet soils where most other plants would not do well.

Often used in mass plantings, this plant's fall color and red stems brighten the winter landscape.

Shrub dogwood with yellow branches that stand out in the winter.

Beautiful silver blue foliage, more finely textured than Blue Ice.  Prefers it hot and dry.

Produces edible persimmon fruit.

A great evergreen foundation shrub that produces red, witch-hazel like flowers.

Cascading Distylium that flowers in late winter.

Bronze-red new foliage makes a stunning woodland display.

Cold hardy plant frequently planted in large masses. A breathtaking display of fall color when in a hedge or mass planting.

A dwarf Joe Pye Weed with purple flowers. Exceptional rain garden and meadow plant for attracting pollinators.

This Fig has a dwarf, compact habit yet still produces many fruit per season.

White bottle-brush type flowers are both fragrant and showy.  Dark green foliage in summer that becomes an array of yellow, orange, and red in the fall.

This evergreen vine blooms heavily in the spring and in the fall with sporadic yellow flowers during the summer.  Grows slightly slower than Carolina Jasmine.

This native twining vine has fragrant yellow flowers in the spring.  Hardy and easily grown in just about any conditions.

Easy to grow climbing vine with sweet smelling bright yellow flowers.

Wonderful native shrub/ tree that can be used in shrub borders, or as a specimen planting.

A splendid reblooming daylily of burnt orange and gold colored flowers.

Dark purple flowering daylily.

Beautiful rose pink flowers with a dark red center. 

A tall shrub with long-blooming ruffled flowers. Pretty and reliably tough once established.

One of the best blue flowering Rose of Sharon.

A shrub with showy, blue flowers and dark eye. Pretty and reliably tough once established.