Purple Flowers or Flower Parts

Rare in the nursery trade and certainly unusual, in late spring and early summer bring square-shaped clusters of purple flowers of this Beautyberry are followed by small green fruit that eventually turn to pure white in fall and winter. In the northern portions if its range it may freeze to the ground or back to its woodiest stems and grows to 6-8' high, in milder winter regions, like zone 9, it can become a 20' high shrub. Item# 10638.

In fall loads of dainty 1/2" wide white daisies with a pinkish-purplish 'eye' literally cover the plant for weeks and offer nectar and pollen to smaller pollinators. The White Woodland Aster or Calico Aster, Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, is a small bushy clump forming native perennial common throughout the Eastern and Central US and spilling over into Canada. It is a common component of our local Pineywoods region that adds a bolt of color beneath that of the changing foliage as well as providing a pollinator food source at a time when many plants have gone to seed for the year but native bees are still stockpiling. The White Woodland Aster is fairly tolerant of full sun to partly shaded sites and is a good choice for meadows, prairies, and roadside plantings. It may reseed on exposed soils, although it does not appear to be aggressive. Caterpillar host plant for the Pearl Crescent butterfly. Item# 12039

1-1/2" wide purple-blue flowers with brightly contrasting yellow stamens are produced atop sturdy stems beginning in spring and continuing into summer. Winnie Faye Spiderwort is a large growing hybrid perennial selected from the garden of its namesake by Carlton Lott, her grandson. This is an easy and adaptable, low maintenance, clump forming perennial whose flowers offer pollen and nectar to bees and other garden beneficials. Provide a full to partly sunny location in an average moist soil for optimum flowering and vigor. Item# 11916

Fragrant 2" blooms were purple yesterday, lavender today, and white tomorrow. A woody shrub-like tropical producing clusters of blooms in summer. Attracts butterflies. Item # 759.