Lavender is a plant with purple flowers. Lavenders deter mosquitoes through the fragrance we all love and cherish. You can place a dried bouquet of lavender to keep these insects out if you can plant lavender in the sunny spots around your home.

Dill is an annual herbaceous plant often used as a companion plant in gardening. Farmers use it to protect crops from pests because it is tall enough to impede their movement. There are various species of dill, like the Mammoth, Fern leaf, Dukat, Long Island, and Bouquet dill.

Floss flower contains coumarin, a compound commonly found in insecticides. Mosquitoes and other insects don’t like the plant’s scent, so they avoid it at all costs. Floss flowers are an excellent addition to your garden because they bloom blue, pink, and white throughout winter and fall.

Nasturtiums repel squash bugs, whiteflies, and many beetles, including asparagus beetles. They release an airborne chemical that deters insects and pests from attacking them and other plants in the area. Thus, nasturtiums are the best plants to put at the edge of a vegetable garden.

Venus flytraps are carnivorous flowering plants. The plant is native to South and North Carolina. You'll find it growing in acidic soils stripped of all its nutrients. It feeds on flying insects, ants, beetles, spiders, and grasshoppers.

Douglas fir is an evergreen coniferous tree with an average height of 40 to 80 feet, reaching up to 300 feet in the wild. The tree takes on the name of the botanist David Douglas, who introduced the first seeds to Great Britain from North America.

Sugar maple is a native species from the northeastern United States and Eastern Canada regions. Although the maple leaf is Canada's national symbol, this tree is also popular in the US. Americans mostly grow sugar maple as an ornamental and shade tree. They also find it valuable because it produces maple syrup, maple sugar, and lumber for furniture making.

Flowering dogwood is a deciduous, woody understory tree in the dogwood family. Native to southeastern Canada, eastern North America, and eastern Mexico, it grows about 15 to 25 feet and has leaves that turn purple and red in the fall.

Lodgepole pine, a common tree in the pine family, is native to western North America and Canada. Its natural range extends from Alaska in the north to California in the south, from the Pacific coast to the east of the Rockies. It can grow up to 50 feet, but some varieties are shrubs that reach only 10 feet.

Not to be confused with Populus tremuloides, the American aspen, also called trembling aspen and quaking aspen. Populus tremula (commonly called aspen, common aspen, Eurasian aspen, European aspen, or quaking aspen)[2] is a species of poplar native to cool temperate regions of the Old World. Populus tremula Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Order: Malpighiales Family: Salicaceae Genus: Populus Section: Populus sect. Populus Species: P. tremula Binomial name Populus tremula L. Distribution map