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Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection

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Create an enchanting summer garden with our Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection of 6. 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 rain gardens and wet soils, too!

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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.

Planting & Care

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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

Light Requirements

  • Full Sun
  • Half Sun / Half Shade

Bloom Time

Early summer to fall

Advantages

  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Birds
  • Deer Resistant
  • Mass Plantings
  • Native
  • Winter Interest

Tolerates

  • Wet Sites

Additional information

Mature Height

Heights range from 16" to 8 ft tall

Mature Spread

Covers roughly 42-51 sq ft

Soil Type

  • Average Soil
  • Loamy Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Moist / Wet

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

Planting Time

  • Spring / Summer

Plant Classification

Blend of Native Species & Cultivars

Native To

North America

Growing Zones

  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8

Poisonous or Toxic to Animals

Some plants in this collection are poisonous if ingested.
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What's In This Collection

Our Fireflies Forever Native Plant Collection covers roughly 90 sq ft and includes 6 plants:
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Name
Quantity
Height
Width
Bloom Season
Smooth Blue Aster (opens in a new tab) Symphyotrichum laeve
1 × Plant - 3" Pot
24-48" tall
12-24" wide
Late summer to late fall
Common Boneset (opens in a new tab) Eupatorium perfoliatum
1 × Plant - 3" Pot
36-48" tall (3-4 ft)
48-72" wide (4-6 ft)
Mid summer through fall
Northern Sea Oats (opens in a new tab) Chasmanthium latifolium
1 × Plant - 3" Pot
24-60" tall (2-5 ft)
12-30" wide
Foliage plant all season.
Cardinal Flower (opens in a new tab) Lobelia cardinalis
1 × Plant - 3" Pot
30-36" tall
10-18" wide
Mid summer to fall
Shenandoah Red Switchgrass (opens in a new tab) Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah'
1 × Plant - 3.5" Pot
36-48" tall
36-48" wide
Foliage plant all season.
Arkansas Bluestar (opens in a new tab) Amsonia hubrichtii
1 × Plant - 3" Pot
24-36" tall
24-36" wide
Late spring to early summer

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