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Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection

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ZONES  5-8 | Good to grow! Zone
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Create an enchanting summer garden with our Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection. To enjoy the warm glow of blinking fireflies on a summer night, grow the meadow-style habitat of native plants that they need to thrive. Attractive shrubs, grasses, and wildflowers will naturalize and spread, adding to your habitat each year. In addition to fireflies, this low-maintenance collection attracts birds, hummingbirds, and butterflies. These plants are suitable for a rain garden and wet soils. Collection of 6 plants.

Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection

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Description

Our Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection will encourage fireflies and other pollinators to call your yard home. Our perennial collections are a great option for enhancing your existing garden or giving you a head start when planting a new garden. Repeat the collection to fill larger spaces. To make sure your garden is firefly friendly, it is important to eliminate pesticide use, turn off or dim outdoor lights at night, and leave sections of tall grass and moist, shady areas for the firefly larvae to make their home. They spend up to 2 years on the ground hunting garden pests like snails and slugs before they turn to the sky to delight us with their light show!

Pair with Ironweed, Swamp Milkweed, Asters, native grasses, Lobelia, and other moist meadow plants.

*Plants are subject to change due to availability, and if we make substitutions, we feature plants with similar attributes suitable to the collection design.

Our Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection covers roughly 90 sq ft and includes 6 plants:

Name Quantity Height Width Bloom Season
Buttonbush Buttonbush 1 x Plant - 3" Pot 4-8 ft tall 5-12 ft wide Mid spring
Cardinal Flower Cardinal Flower 1 x Plant - 3" Pot 30-36" tall 10-18" wide Mid summer to fall
Common Boneset Common Boneset 1 x Plant - 3" Pot 3-4 ft tall 4-6 ft wide Mid summer through fall
Northern Sea Oats Northern Sea Oats 1 x Plant - 3" Pot 2-5 ft tall 12-30" wide Foliage plant all season.
Shenandoah Red Switchgrass Shenandoah Red Switchgrass 1 x Plant - 3.5" Pot 36-48" tall 36-48" wide Foliage plant all season.
Smooth Blue Aster Smooth Blue Aster 1 x Plant - 3" Pot 24-48" tall 12-24" wide Late summer to late fall

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As soon as your order is placed you will receive a confirmation email. You will receive a second email the day your order ships telling you how it has been sent. Some perennials are shipped as potted plants, some as perennial roots packed in peat.  The ‘Plant Information’ section describes how that item will ship. All perennials and fall-planted bulbs are packaged to withstand shipping and are fully-guaranteed. Please open upon receipt and follow the instructions included.

Perennials and fall-planted bulbs are shipped at the proper planting time for your Growing Zone. Perennial and fall-planted bulb orders will arrive separately from seeds. If your order requires more than one shipment and all items are shipping to the same address, there is no additional shipping charge. See our shipping information page for approximate ship dates and more detailed information. If you have any questions, please call Customer Service at (802) 227-7200 or contact us by email or chat.

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key features

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Advantages
  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Birds
  • Deer Resistant
  • Mass Plantings
  • Native
  • Winter Interest
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Tolerates
  • Wet Sites
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Light Requirements
  • Full Sun
  • Half Sun / Half Shade
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Bloom Time
Early summer to fall

Additional information

Planting Time
  • Spring / Summer
Soil Moisture
  • Average
  • Moist / Wet
Soil Type
  • Average Soil
  • Loamy Soil
Mature Height
Heights range from 16" to 8 ft tall
Mature Spread
Covers roughly 42-51 sq ft
Planting Depth
For potted plants, the base of the stem(s) should be just at the soil surface after watering in.  For bare roots, the top of the root should be 1" below the soil line
Growing Zones
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
Native To
North America
Poisonous or Toxic to Animals
Some plants in this collection are poisonous if ingested.
Neonicotinoid Free
Yes
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