Rabbit Resistant Plants
As
gardeners we would envision our garden as the prettiest on the street,
but nature sometimes intervenes with bugs and rabbits. Rabbits have been
a major nuisance this year to gardeners and these creatures can destroy
a plant or plants overnight. Unfortunately, there is not a plant that
is 100 percent rabbit proof, because if the rabbits are hungry enough
they will eat any plant. Rabbits do not like foliage that is rough in
texture, pubescent foliage, lemony or scented foliage. The plants listed
below has one or all of the foliage characteristics, and to combat the
rabbits, I would like to suggest using the plants listed below in beds
and borders, but also use a rabbit repellent on your property line. Some
of the plants listed have a * image, which means that some rabbits
sometimes have a little nibble. Plants listed with a spp. ending
represents all varieties in that genus.
Anemones, Windflowers - Anemone spp.
Type: Perennial corms. Zones: 4–9. Height: 4–36 inches depending on
variety. Spacing: 6–12 inches apart depending on variety. Light: Full to
partial shade. Uses: Cut flowers, containers, beds and borders,
fragrant flowers.
Angelonia – Angelonia angustifolia.
Type: Perennial in zones 9-10, annual outside zone 9. Zones: All.
Height: 12-24 inches. Spacing: 10-12 inches apart. Light: Full sun.
Uses: Containers, beds and borders, attracts butterflies to the garden.
Anise Hyssop - Agastache spp.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 5-9. Height: 12-36 inches. Spacing: 12-24
inches. Light: Full sun. Uses: Beds and borders, fragrant flowers,
attract hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden.
Arkansas Blue Star - Amsonia hubrichtii.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 5-8. Height: 2-3 feet. Spacing: 2-3 feet apart.
Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Attracts butterflies, good fall
color, beds and borders.
Aster – Aster spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 2-5 feet. Spacing: 15 inches apart.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Beds and borders, mass plantings, cut flowers,
attract butterflies.
Avens, Grecian Rose - Geum spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 5-7. Height: 10-24 inches. Spacing: 10-12 inches
apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Beds and borders, fresh cut flowers.
Azalea - Rhododendron spp. Type: Shrub. Zones: 4-9. Height: Varies from 2-20 feet depending
on variety and cultivar. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart. Light: Full sun to
shade. Uses: Specimen shrub, hedge shrub, smaller varieties can be used in borders, nectar plant for butterflies.
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| Azalea |
Balloon Flower - Platycodon grandiflorus. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height:
6-36 inches depending on cultivar. Spacing: 8-12 inches apart. Light:
Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Border, rock garden, cut flower,
containers.
Basil – Ocimum basilicum. Type: Annual. Zones: 2-11. Height: 1-2 feet. Spacing: 12-24 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Leaves are used in cooking, pesto sauces, Italian dishes, butterfly nectar plant, mosquito repellant plant.
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| Basil |
Bear’s Breeches - Acanthus spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 6-11.
Height: 3-4 feet. Spacing: 2-4 feet. Light: Partial shade to shade.
Uses: Specimen plant, cut flowers, dramatic foliage.
Beardtongue – Penstemon spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-10. Height: 12-36 inches. Spacing:
18-24 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Mixed perennial garden,
attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Bee Balm – Monarda didyma. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 2-4 feet, but can reach to 6 feet.
Spacing: 18-24 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses:
Attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
Bee Balms - Monardia spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 1-4 feet, but can reach to 6 feet.
Spacing: 18-24 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses:
Attract butterflies and hummingbirds, containers, beds and borders, cut
flowers.
Big-leaf Periwinkle - Vinca major. Type:
Ground cover. Zones: 5-9. Height: 12-18 inches. Spacing: 18 inches
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Excellent ground cover
for retaining walls or hillsides.
Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 3-10. Height:
18-30 inches. Spacing: 12-24 inches. Light: Full sun to partial shade.
Uses: Beds and borders, containers, attract birds and butterflies.
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| Black-eyed Susan |
Blanket Flower - Gaillardia spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 5-10. Height: 18-24 inches. Spacing: 18 inches apart.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Borders, containers, cut flowers, attracts
butterflies.
Bleeding Heart – Dicentra spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: 24-36 inches. Spacing: 18-24 inches
apart. Light: Partial shade to shade. Uses: Borders, containers, cut
flowers.
Blue Heliotrope, Clasping Heliotrope - Heliotropium amplexicaule. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 7-10. Height: 12 inches. Spacing: 24-36 inches apart.
Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Ground cover, in containers,
mixed perennial garden, attracts butterflies.
Blue Mist Shrub, Bluebeard - Caryopteris spp. Type:
Deciduous shrub. Zones: 5-9. Height: 24-36 inches. Spacing: 18-24
inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Attracts butterflies, borders,
fragrant flowers.
Butterfly Bush - Buddleia davidii. Type:
Deciduous shrub. Zones: 5-10. Height: From 3-6 feet depending on
variety. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, fragrant flowers, specimen shrub.
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| Butterfly Bush |
Butterfly Weed, Milkweed - Asclepias spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 5-11. Height: 24-36 inches. Spacing: 12-24 inches
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Nectar and food plant for
the Monarch butterfly, cut flowers, borders, wildflower gardens,
containers.
Canna Lily – Canna X generalis. Type: Perennial. Zones: 7-11. Height: 4-6 feet. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart. Light: Full sun to partial
shade. Uses: Plant in masses with bananas and gingers for a touch of
the tropics, containers, cut flower, and wetlands or boggy areas.
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| Canna |
Catmint – Nepeta X faassenii. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 5-10. Height: 2-3 feet. Spacing: 12-18 inches apart.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Butterfly nectar plant, front borders, your cat
will love it.
Catmints/Catnips - Nepeta spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 5-10. Height: 12-36 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Butterfly nectar plant, front borders, your cat will love it.
Clematis – Clematis spp. Type:
Perennial vine. Zones: 4-9. Height: 6-10 feet. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart.
Light: Full sun and keep the roots in the shade. Uses: Trellises,
arbors, mailboxes.
Common Periwinkle, Dwarf Periwinkle - Vinca minor. Type:
Evergreen ground cover. Zones: 4-9. Height: 4-6 inches. Spacing: 8-12
inches apart. Light: Full sun to shade. Uses: Ground cover for erosion
control, hillsides, retaining walls, slopes.
Coneflower – Echinacea spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 2-10. Height: 24-36 inches. Spacing: 15-20 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Borders or containers, cut flowers, attracts birds, butterflies and hummingbirds.
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| Coneflower |
Coppertip, Falling Stars - Crocosmia spp.
Type: Perennial bulb. Zones: 6-10. Height: 2-3 feet. Spacing: 12-18
inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Cut flowers,
borders, attracts hummingbirds.
Coralbells – Heuchera spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: up to 36 inches. Spacing:
12-18 inches apart. Light: Full sun to shade. Uses: Attracts butterflies
and hummingbirds, containers, borders, drought and heat tolerant.
Daffodils – Narcissus spp. Type:
Perennial bulb. Zones: 4-9. Height: 4-24 inches. Spacing: 4-6 inches
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: borders, naturalizing,
forcing, cut flowers.
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| Daffodils |
Dahlias – Dahlia spp. Type:
Perennial tubers. Zones: 7-10. Height: up to 6 feet. Spacing: 24 inches
apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Cut flowers, containers, mass plantings.
Daylily – Hemerocallis spp. Type:
Deciduous perennial. Zones: 2-10. Height: To 36 inches. Spacing: 15-18
inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Borders, erosion control, slopes,
mass palntings.
Dianthus, Pinks – Dianthus spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-10. Height: 14-18 inches. Spacing: 10-12 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Attracts butterflies, cut flowers, borders or edgers, fragrant flowers.
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| Dianthus |
Evening Primrose – Oenothera spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: To 4
feet, depending on species. Spacing: 12-24 inches apart. Light: Full sun
to partial shade. Uses: Ground cover, flowers open in the evening.
False Indigo, Wild Indigo, Baptisia - Baptisia spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: To 5 feet, depending on species.
Spacing: 12-36 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Borders, cut flower,
dried flower, drought tolerant, attracts butterflies.
False Spirea – Astilbe spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: 18-24 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches
apart. Light: Partial shade to shade. Uses: Edger, foreground plant, cut
flower, dried flower, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Feverfew, Painted Daisy - Tanacetum spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 8-36
inches, depending on variety. Spacing: 8-18 inches apart, depending on
variety. Light: Full sun. Uses: Containers, bed and borders, butterfly
attractant, cut flowers, drought tolerant.
Floss Flower, Ageratum* - Ageratum houstonianum. Type: Annual. Zones: All except very cold areas. Height: 6-12”. Spacing: 6-8” apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Butterfly nectar plant.
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| Ageratum |
Flowering Onions - Allium spp. Type:
Perennial bulb. Zones: 3-9. Height: 1-4 feet, depending on variety.
Spacing: 2-5 inches apart, depending on variety. Light: Full sun. Uses:
Accent, mixed border, drought tolerant, nectar plant for butterflies.
Fountain Grasses – Pennisetum spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 6-11. Height: 1-5
feet, depending on variety. Spacing: 2-4 feet apart. Light: Full sun to
partial shade. Uses: Borders, edgers, specimen, containers.
Foxglove – Digitalis spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-8. Height: 36-48 inches. Spacing: 12-24 inches
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Flowering perennial in
back of the landscape bed.
Fritillaria – Fritillaria spp. Type:
Bulb. Zones: 3-9. Height: 8-40 inches, depending on variety. Spacing:
10-12 inches. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Mid spring bloomer
for perennial gardens.
Geranium or Scented Geranium – Pelargonium spp. Type: Annual, perennial in zone 9. Zones:
All. Height: 24-36 inches. Spacing: 12-24 inches apart. Light: Full sun.
Uses: Teas, sachets, jellies, potpourris, vinegars, and desserts.
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| Small Shell Ginger |
Alpinia purpurata – Red Ginger. Type: Perennial. Zones: 8b-10. Height: 5-6 feet. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Foliage and flowers are used in floral arrangements, containers, landscape beds.
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| Red Ginger |
Alpinia zerumbet ‘Variegata’ – Variegated Shell Ginger. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 8-12. Height: 6 feet. Spacing: 4-6 feet apart. Light:
Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Containers, foliage and flowers are
used in floral arrangements, specimen plant.
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| Variegated Shell Ginger |
Ginger or Cooking Ginger – Zingiber officinale. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 8-10. Height: 4 feet. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart. Light:
Partial shade. Uses: The root or rhizome is used in fish and meat
dishes, to flavor teas and carbonated drinks, Chinese cooking.
Hardy Ice Plant - Delosperma spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 5-11. Height: 3-4 inches. Spacing: 9-12 inches.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Ground cover for slopes, erosion control, rock
garden, edger, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, drought and heat
tolerant.
Heartleaf Brunnera – Brunnera macrophylla. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 3-8. Height: 12-18 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches
apart. Light: Partial shade to shade. Uses: Beds, borders, ground cover,
containers.
Holly Fern, Shield Fern, Sword Fern – Polystichum spp. Type: Perennial.
Zones: 3-10. Height: 12-36 inches, depending on variety. Spacing: 9-12
inches apart. Light: Partial shade to shade. Uses: Borders, erosion
control, slopes.
Iris* - Iris spp. Type:
Perennial bulb or rhizome, depending on variety. Zones: 3-9. Height:
18-48 inches, depending on variety. Spacing: 8-10 inches apart. Light:
Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Perennial beds and borders, cut flowers.
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| Iris |
Lamb’s Ear - Stachys byzantine. Type: Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: 12-18
inches. Spacing: 10-18 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Borders,
edger, containers, drought tolerant, rock garden.
Lantana – Lantana camara, L. montevidensis. Lantana - Lantana camara 'Miss Huff'. Type: Perennial. Zones: 7-11. Height: 4 – 5’. Spacing: 3 – 5’
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Butterfly attractant,
heat and drought tolerant.
Trailing Lantana - Lantana montevidensis.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 8-10. Height: 18 – 24”. Spacing: 3 – 4’ apart,
can spread to 5’. Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade. Uses:
Butterfly attractant, heat and drought tolerant.
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| Trailing Lantana |
Larkspur – Consolida spp. (A), Delphinium spp. (P). Type:
Annual or perennial. Zones: All. Height: 12-36 inches. Spacing: 10-12
inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Wild flower
gardens, bed and borders, fresh cut flowers, dried flowers.
Lavender – Lavandula spp. Lavandula angustifolia.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 5-10. Height: 18-24”. Spacing: 12-18” apart.
Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Nectar plant for butterflies and
hummingbirds, flowers can be dried or fresh cut, in potpourris, and
sachets, in containers.
Lenten Rose, Christmas Rose, Hellebore - Helleborus spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 14-24 inches. Spacing: 12-22 inches
apart. Light: Partial shade to shade. Uses: Beds, cut flowers, companion
plants with ferns, hostas, heucheras in mixed bed.
Lungwort - Pulmonaria spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 12-18 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches
apart. Light: Partial shade to shade. Uses: Beds and borders, ground
cover, drought tolerant, companion plants with ferns, bleeding hearts,
hostas.
Marigolds – Tagetes spp. Mexican Marigold Mint - Tagetes lucida. Type: Perennial. Zones: 8-10. Height: 24-30”. Spacing: 12-18” apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Butterfly
nectar and larval food plant, Mosquito repellent plant, fresh flowers
are used in salads; leaves are used as a substitute for French tarragon.
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| Mexican Marigold Mint |
Mexican Heather, Cigar Flower – Cuphea spp. Type:
Shrub. Zones: 9-11, treated as an annual outside zone 9. Height: 24-36
inches. Spacing: 24-36 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Ground
cover, mid-bed plantings, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Miscanthus Grasses – Miscanthus spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-10. Height: 5-6 feet. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart.
Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Shrub, privacy hedge, specimen
plant, cut or dried flowers.
Muhly Grasses - Muhlenbergia spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 6-9. Height: 3 feet. Spacing: 3 feet apart. Light:
Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Bed and borders, containers.
Mums - Chrysanthemum spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 5-9. Height: 12-36 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Containers, mass
plantings, cut flowers.
Oregano – Origanum spp. Greek Oregano - Origanum vulgare subsp. Hirtum. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-11. Height: 24
inches. Spacing: 12 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade.
Uses: Leaves are used in Italian dishes, pizza, shellfish, egg dishes,
beef, pork, and poultry dishes.
Italian Oregano – Origanum vulgare. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-11. Height: 24 inches. Spacing: 8 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Leaves are used in Italian dishes, pizza, shellfish, egg dishes, beef, pork, and poultry dishes.
Sweet Marjoram - Origanum majorana.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 9-11, treated as an annual outside zone 9.
Height: 12 to 18 inches. Spacing: 9 inches apart. Light: Full sun to
partial shade. Uses: Leaves are used in eggs, meats, rice, pastas,
soups, vegetables.
Peonies – Paeonia spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 3-7. Height: 12-36 inches, depending on variety.
Spacing: 18-36 inches apart. Light: Partial shade to shade. Uses: Back
of the border bed, cut flowers.
Petunia – Petunia X hybrid 'Purple Wave'. Type: Annual. Zones: All except very cold areas. Height: 4 – 6”. Spacing: For a
thick coverage, 12 – 15” apart, 3’ apart for regular coverage, plants
will spread 3 – 5’. Light: Full sun. Uses: Butterfly attractant, heat
and drought tolerant, border, edger, or in hanging baskets.
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| Purple Wave Petunia |
Phlox – Phlox spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: 2-36 inches, depending on variety.
Spacing: 12-18 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: bed
and borders, ground cover, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Poppies – Papaver spp. Type: Annual. Zones: 2-11. Height: 1-4 feet. Spacing: 6-12 inches. Light: Full sun. Uses: Beds and borders, containers.
Prostrate Rosemary - Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus’. Type: Perennial shrub or groundcover. Height: 12-18”. Spacing:
2 feet apart. Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade. Additional
Uses: The leaves are used in lamb and fish dishes, butterfly nectar
plant, Mosquito repellent plant, and drought tolerant plant.
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| Prostrate Rosemary |
Rosemary – Rosmarinus officinalis. Type:
Perennial shrub. Zones: 8-11. Height: 4 feet. Spacing: 3-5 feet apart.
Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: The leaves are used in lamb and
fish dishes, drought tolerant plant, and butterfly nectar plant.
Russian Sage - Perovskia atriplicifolia. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 3-5 feet. Spacing: 24-36 inches apart.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Containers, bed and borders, cut flowers,
butterfly attractant.
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| Russian Sage |
Salvia and Sages.
Autumn Sage - Salvia greggii 'Maraschino'. Type: Perennial. Zones: 7-10. Height:
3’ – 4’. Spacing: 18” – 24” apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade.
Uses: Butterfly and hummingbird attractant, accent, cut flower, herb and
perennial garden.
Mexican Sage - Salvia leucantha. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 8-10. Height: 2 – 4’. Spacing: 3 – 5’ apart. Light:
Full sun. Uses: Butterfly attractant, and drought tolerant.
Pineapple Sage – Salvia elegans. Type: Perennial. Zones: 8-11. Height:
3 - 4 feet. Spacing: 3 – 4 feet apart. Light: Full sun to partial
shade. Blooms red flowers in spring, summer, and fall. The leaves when
crushed smell and taste like fresh pineapple. Uses: The fresh leaves can
be used in drinks and salads. The leaves can be used in hot or cold
drinks, and the flowers and leaves are used chopped in salads. Attracts
butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden.
Sage - Salvia officinalis.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 5-10. Height: 3 feet. Spacing: 12-24 inches
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Leaves are used in
stuffing, meat dishes, egg dishes, salads, soups, stews, and vegetables,
accent in borders.
Sedge - Carex spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 6-36 inches, depending on variety.
Spacing: 12-36 inches apart, depending on variety. Light: Full sun to
partial shade. Uses: Beds and borders, containers.
Sedums, Stonecrops – Sedum spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 3-11. Height: 2-24 inches. Spacing: 4-18 inches
apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Containers, slopes, rock gardens, cracks
and crevices, butterfly attractant.
Siberian Iris - Iris sibirica. Type: Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height:
12-36 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Ponds,
streams, or boggy areas, cut flowers.
Snapdragons - Antirrhinum majus. Type:
Annual. Zones: All. Height: 6-36 inches depending on variety. Spacing:
8-12 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Cut flowers,
beds and borders.
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| Snapdragons |
Solomon’s Seal – Polygonatum spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: 24-48
inches. Spacing: 18-24 inches apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade.
Uses: Shady gardens.
Spanish Bluebells - Hyacinthoides hispanica. Type:
Perennial bulb. Zones: 3-8. Height: 12-18 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches
apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Cut flowers, beds and
borders, edger.
Spider Flower - Cleome hassleriana. Type: Annual. Zones: 2-11. Height: 3-6 feet. Spacing: 12-24
inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Beds, borders, large containers,
attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and birds to the garden.
Spirea* - Spiraea spp. Type:
Deciduous shrub. Zones: 4-9. Height: 12-36 inches. Spacing: 3-5 feet
apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Foundation planting, attracts butterflies,
hummingbirds, and birds.
St. John’s Wort - Hypericum spp. Type:
Ground cover. Zones: 5-11. Height: 12-24 inches. Spacing: 24-36 inches
apart. Light: Partial shade. Uses: Ground cover, mass plantings, edgers,
borders.
Swamp Sunflower, Narrow-Leaf Sunflower - Helianthus angustifolius. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 6-9. Height: To 6 feet. Spacing: 18-24 inches apart.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Wild flower gardens, attracts native butterflies,
mixed perennial beds.
Tansy - Tanacetum vulgare. Type: Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: 3-4
feet. Spacing: 12-18” apart. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses:
Nectar food plant for butterflies, dried flower.
Thyme – Thymus spp.
Lemon Thyme – Thymus x citriodorus.
Type: Perennial. Height: 12 inches. Spacing: 12 inches apart. Light
Requirements: Full sun. Light purple flowers in summer. Wonderful Lemon
scent when leaves are crushed or walked upon. Additional Uses: All
leaves have a distinct lemon flavor that can be used in cooking.
Attracts Butterflies and Hummingbirds to the garden.
Summer Thyme – Thymus vulgaris.
Type: Perennial. Height: 6 – 12 inches. Spacing: 6 – 12 inches apart.
Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade. Blooms lilac to purple
flowers in summer. Additional Uses: All leaves are used in cooking.
Attracts butterflies to the garden. All thyme plants can be used as an
alternative ground cover.
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| Silver Thyme |
Tickseed - Coreopsis spp. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-10. Height: From 6 to 36 inches depending on variety. Spacing: 9-14 inches
apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Dwarf variety can be used as borders or
ground covers, beds and borders, attracts butterflies, cut flower.
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| Coreopsis |
Verbena – Verbena spp. Verbena Canadensis ‘Homestead’ – Homestead Purple Verbena. Type: Perennial. Zones: 5-10. Height: 12
inches. Spacing: 3-4 feet apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Ground cover for
hills, slopes, retaining walls, rock gardens, attracts butterflies.
Veronica, Speedwell – Veronica spp. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 4-9. Height: 4-12 inches. Spacing: 8-12 inches apart.
Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Ground cover, borders, attracts
butterflies and hummingbirds, drought tolerant.
Vinca, Periwinkle - Catharanthus roseus.
Type: Perennial/annual. Zones: 9-11, perennial, outside zone 9 treated
as annual. Height: 24 inches. Spacing: 10-12 inches apart. Light: Full
sun. Uses: Containers, bed, borders, butterfly attractant.
Whirling Butterflies - Gaura lindheimeri. Type: Perennial. Zones: 5-10. Height: 36
inches. Spacing: 18-20 inches apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Containers,
beds and borders, attracts butterflies, drought tolerant.
Wormwood – Artemisia spp.
Roman Wormwood - Artemisia pontica.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-10. Height: 18-24”. Spacing: 12” apart.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Nectar and larval food plant for butterflies,
drought tolerant plant, floral arranging, bed and borders.
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| Artemisia pontica |
Wormwood - Artemisia absinthium. Type: Perennial. Zones: 4-9.
Height: 2-3 feet. Spacing: 18-24” apart. Light: Full sun to partial
shade. Uses: Nectar and larval food plant for butterflies, drought
tolerant plant.
Wormwood - Artemisia 'Powis Castle'.
Type: Perennial. Zones: 9-11. Height: 2-3 feet. Spacing: 3 feet apart.
Light: Full sun to partial shade. Uses: Nectar and larval food plant for
butterflies, drought tolerant plant, foliage used in fresh or dried
arrangements.
Yarrow – Achillea millefolium, A. filipendulina. Type:
Perennial. Zones: 3-9. Height: 15-36 inches. Spacing: 12-15 inches
apart. Light: Full sun. Uses: Cut or dried flowers, butterfly
attractant, bed, borders.
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| Yarrow |
Zinnias* - Zinnia spp. Type:
Annual. Zones: All. Height: 12-18 inches. Spacing: 12-18 inches apart.
Light: Full sun. Uses: Beds, borders, cut flower, containers, butterfly
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