Black Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia, a member of the daisy family, has long been a popular choice for gardeners and landscapers alike. With its bright yellow and orange blooms, rudbeckia adds a splash of color to any garden or landscape. It is drought tolerant and blooms all summer long, but must be cut back after blooming in order to keep performing. This plant is an EdenScapes favorite. Click here to learn more about Black Eyed Susan.
- Maintenance: Average
- Form: Free form
- Size: 30” x 30”
- Exposure: Full sun
- Soil: Well-drained
Purple Cone Flower
The purple coneflower is a perennial that may be better known by it’s scientific and medicinal name, Echinacea Purpurea. In addition to it’s medicinal features, while not as consistent as Black Eyed Susan, it puts out purple blooms and will continue to come back year after year. Click here to learn more about Purple Coneflower.
- Maintenance: Average
- Form: Free form
- Size: 30” x 30”
- Exposure: Full/Part sun
- Soil: Well-drained
Dwarf Butterfly Bush
If you want to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden, the buddleia, also called the butterfly bush, works great. Dwarf Butterfly Bush can be used as cut flowers and have fragrant blossoms. And they are winter hardy in Louisiana, although they can also be used as annuals for color in the landscape if desired. Click here to learn about the Louisiana Super Plant variety, Petite Tutti Fruitti Pink.
Lavender Firespike
The firespike is a tropical plant with lush green leaves, topped with purple blooms that reach upward. It’s a favorite of hummingbirds and larger butterflies, and is bothered by few pests or diseases. It thrives in areas that get only morning sun, or filtered sun throughout the day. It will not thrive in full sun.
Lantana
Lantanas are irresistible to butterflies and are an important plant to include in flower gardens planted with these delightful insects in mind. The Bandana lantanas are Louisiana Super Plant selections that are especially compact and floriferous. Lantana is a heavy bloomer, and is a heat-loving plant that should be grown in direct sunlight, receiving no fewer than 4 hours a day. Click here to learn more about Lantana.
- Maintenance: Low
- Form: Round to spreading
- Size: Dependant on variety
- Exposure: Full sun
- Soil: Well-drained
Mexican Heather
Small, freely branching perennial with dainty lavender tubular flowers that open to a star shape; flowers year round in warmer climates; great for bedding, shrub borders, and containers.
- Maintenance: Low
- Form: Round
- Size: 18” x 18”
- Exposure: Full to partial sun
- Soil: Well-drained
Mexican Bush Sage
Mexican bush sage, also known as Salvia leucantha, is a perennial shrub native to Central America and Mexico. It produces bicolor flowers that are beautiful from late summer to frost. The flowers grow in dense, arching terminal spikes up to 10 inches long, and butterflies and hummingbirds love them.
- Maintenance: Average
- Form: Free Form
- Size: 4’ x 3’
- Exposure: Full sun
- Soil: Well-drained