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OCTOBER Plant List

  Check out BugLady's available plants for OCTOBER!

  Cloudless Sulphur butterflies are in town!                   
Barber Laboratories

504-739-5715
6444 Jefferson Highway in Harahan
Monday thru Friday 9:30-5:00

PRICES:  4" pot = $3      Quart pot = $5      Gallon pot = $7

 

Butterfly Nectar Plants

Photo Item Size
Blanket flower (Gaillardia pulchella) Quart
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) Gallon
Cat Whiskers (Orthosiphon stamineus Benth) Gallon
       Celosia                       "Flamingo Feather" Quart
Coreopsis
(Coreopsis lanceolata)
Gallon
      Crownbeard           (Verbesina virginica) Gallon

Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)

 

Quart 
Gaillardia                    "Arizona Apricot" Quart
Garden Phlox            "John Fanick" Quart
Garden Phlox "Louisiana Phlox" 4"
Garden Phlox "Robert Poore" Quart
Gulf Coast Penstemon (Penstemon tenuis)

 

Quart & Gallon

Ironweed                              (Vernonia sp.) Quart
Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum) Quart
Maximilian Sunflower   (Helianthus maximiliani) Quart & Gallon
Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia) Quart
Hyssop (Agastache) "Apricot Sunrise" Quart
Hyssop
(Agastache)

"Blue Fortune"
4"

Hyssop                      (Agastache)                  "Tutti Fruitti"

 

Quart
            Big Leaf                     Mountain Mint       (Pynanthemum muticum) Quart 
Narrowleaf
Mountain Mint
(Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)
Quart

Obedient Plant

(Physostegia virginiana)

Gallon

Penstemon           "Husker Red"

(Penstemon digitalis)

Gallon

Purple Coneflower

(Echinacea)

Quart
Seaside Goldenrod (Solidago sempervirins) Quart
Star Hibiscus (Hibiscus coccineus) Gallon

Star Hibiscus

(Hibiscus coccineus alba)

Gallon
Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus) Gallon 
  Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica)     Gallon

Caterpillar Host Plants

Photo Item Size
False Nettles (Boehmeria cylindrica) (For Red Admiral and Question Mark) Quart
    Camphor Tree           (Cinnamomum                 camphora)                    (for Spicebush      Swallowtail)  Quart 

Cassia (Cassia alata) "Candelabra Tree"(for Sulphur butterflies)

 

 

4", Quart, & Gallon
Cassia                    (Cassia splendens) (For Sulphur butterflies) Quart

        Fennel - Bronze or green

(for Black Swallowtail)

4" & Quart
Lippia "Frogfruit"        (for Buckeye and Phaon Crescent) Quart 
Parsley - curled or     straight leaf                 (for Black Swallowtail) 4"

Partridge Pea

Chamaecrista fasciculata (for Sulphur butterflies)

Quart

Passion Flower Vine (Passiflora incarnata)

(For Gulf Fritillary  or Variegated Fritillary butterfly)

Gallon
Pipevine                      (White-Veined)    Aristolochia fimbriata              (for Pipevine Swallowtail)  4"
              Senna                   (Senna corymbosa) (for Sulphur butterflies) Quart 
Sicklepod Cassia (Cassia obtusifolia)  (for Sulphur butterflies) Quart

 

 

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