Monarch Magic Ageratum — Butterfly-Magnet Bloomer (Ageratum houstonianum 'Monarch Magic') · 6" Pot

'Monarch Magic' doesn't look like much of a butterfly plant at first — soft periwinkle puffs, fuzzy as a stuffed animal, stacked over tidy mounds of green. Then a monarch lands. Then another. The blooms are pure nectar fuel, and the butterflies treat them like a scheduled stop.

It keeps that soft lavender-blue color coming from now until frost, long after most annuals have called it a season — and it plays well with everything: borders, patio pots, or tucked in front of taller bloomers where the color can hum along the edge.

Easy rule for our Northern Virginia gardens: sun to light afternoon shade and a drink when it's dry. It's an annual here in 7b — one glorious season, start to finish — so plant it where you'll see the visitors.

The basics

• ☀️ Full sun to part shade · average soil, water in dry spells
• 📏 Tidy, mounding habit — great for borders and containers
• 💜 Fuzzy periwinkle-blue blooms, nonstop until frost
• 🦋 Monarch & butterfly nectar favorite · bees love it too
• 🌱 Easy annual color — deer tend to pass it by

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