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Freeport Gardening Guide: Butterfly Bush

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Butterfly Bush

Chrysalis Cranberry​ Buddleia Plant:

Description: Butterflies adore the berry-pink flower clusters.  Abundant berry-pink flower clusters set pollinator hearts aflutter. Dwarf bushes beautify containers or landscaping, continuously flowering from spring through late summer. Butterflies love to visit the plenty of nectarous blooms. Plants tolerate rain or drought once established.

Chrysalis Cranberry​ Buddleia Plant

 

Violet Cascade Buddleia Plant:

Description: Pollinators flock to these fragrant, deep-purple plumes.  Butterflies and bees just can’t resist this beautiful late summer bloomer! ‘Violet Cascade’ tumbles into color when other plants are tuckering out from the heat, and it keeps flowering into early fall. With honey-sweet fragrance and rich purple flower clusters, this butterfly bush enchants people and pollinators while deterring deer and rabbits. Established plants have good drought tolerance, too. Cut back old wood to about 12" in the spring.

Violet Cascade Buddleia Plant

 

Lilac Cascade Buddleia Plant:

Description: Sparkling plum-lavender plumes with wafts a lovely honey-sweet fragrance.  You’re going to love the shorter, wider growth habit of this handsome plant, which makes it easier for you to enjoy viewing the butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds that flock to its cascading flower show. Bursts into bloom a bit later, revitalizing your midsummer garden with generous, sparkling plum-lavender plumes all the way till fall. Wafts a lovely honey-sweet fragrance.

Lilac Cascade Buddleia Plant

 

Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush Plant:

Description: Fragrant, lavender-purple flowers.  Flowers are fragrant and lavender-purple and contrast with gray-green foliage. It grows best in full sun but will tolerate some shade and under most conditions will bloom from June to September. Blossoms are great for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds and as cut flowers.

Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush Plant

 

Queen of Hearts Buddleia Plant:

Description: Butterfly bush flowering with large panicles in vibrant magenta red.  Buddleia, Queen of Hearts is a butterfly bush cultivar which features vibrant magenta red flowers. Large, cone-shaped panicles 9-12” long are produced from top of the plant to the bottom. It is a shrub with short, compact, rather rounded habit which grows 3-4’ tall. Flowers are slightly fragrant. Buddleia is commonly known as butterfly bush, a deciduous shrub native to China. It typically grows to 6-12’ tall with a spread to 4-15’ wide when not killed back by cold winter temperatures. It is noted for its bushy habit, arching stems, showy, fragrant flowers and vigorous growth. Spike-like flower clusters bloom from early summer to first frost. Flowers are mildly fragrant, and very attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.

Queen of Hearts Buddleia Plant

 

Pugster Blue Buddleia Plant:

Description: Butterfly bush with small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long.  This is unique selection of butterfly bush has a small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long. Each bloom is a massive cluster of blue flowers with honey fragrance – needless to say the best bee and butterfly magnet. The small size of this shrub makes it excellent for patio containers.

Pugster Blue Buddleia Plant

 

Butterfly Mix Butterfly Bush Seed:

Description: A hardy butterfly bush that blooms the first year from seed.  The seeds in this hybrid mix will produce hardy butterfly bushes that bloom their first year in purple, white, lavender or pink. Also called "summer lilacs", these butterfly bushes have a long blooming season (August into September), need little care and butterflies as well as hummingbirds really do love them! Space 4-6 ft. apart. F1 Hybrid

Butterfly Mix Butterfly Bush Seed

 

Miss Molly Buddleia Plant:

Description: Amazing Color!  This long-blooming beauty produces the deepest wine-dark pink to red flowers of any butterfly bush you have ever seen. Flower spikes in a regal blend of magenta and burgundy bloom freely from mid-summer to frost on plants. Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to add delightful motion to your garden, with plenty of blooms to spare for indoor bouquets. Prune to 1/3 original height in early spring for the best display.

Miss Molly Buddleia Plant

 

Pugster Pink Buddleia Plant:

Description: Butterfly bush with small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long.  This is unique selection of butterfly bush has a small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long. Each bloom is a massive cluster of pink flowers with honey fragrance – needless to say the best bee and butterfly magnet. The small size of this shrub makes it excellent for patio containers.

Pugster Pink Buddleia Plant

 

Prince Charming Buddleia Plant:

Description: Brilliant raspberry pink, honey-scented blossoms attract pollinators galore.  Gardens will come alive with this new color to the Buddleia family. Bright raspberry pink colored blossoms are 10” in length making them an absolute stunner. As other perennials stop blooming, ‘Prince Charming’ will come in just like the fairy-tales and enchant the landscape just in the nick of time. Pollinators will flit with glee as they congregate to the honey-scented blossoms.

Prince Charming Buddleia Plant

 

Glass Slippers Buddleia Plant:

Description: Dense and well- branched shrub covered with pale-blue clusters.  Buddleia, Glass Slippers is low growing, wide spreading butterfly bush covered from top to bottom with pale-blue clusters. With dense and well- branched plants, Glass Slippers is very manageable and practical for use in patio containers. Buddleia is commonly known as butterfly bush, a deciduous shrub native to China. It typically grows to 6-12’ tall with a spread to 4-15’ wide when not killed back by cold winter temperatures. It is noted for its bushy habit, arching stems, showy, fragrant flowers and vigorous growth. Spike-like flower clusters bloom from early summer to first frost. Flowers are mildly fragrant, and very attractive to butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.

Glass Slippers Buddleia Plant

 

Wisteria Lane PPAF Buddleia Plant:

Description: Large, dense plants display an uncommon weeping habit with majestic flowers.  This most unusual and delightful butterfly bush infuses the back of the sunny border with colorful flair. ‘Wisteria Lane’s large, dense plants display an uncommon weeping habit that flourishes long, majestic rich-violet flower spikes throughout summer. A glorious addition to your garden, and beacon to passing butterflies and hummingbirds.

Wisteria Lane PPAF Buddleia Plant

 

CranRazz Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) Plant:

Description: Hot color galore on a low maintenance bush.  One of the best butterfly bushes we have seen! Rich cranberry red flowers bloom from spring to mid-fall on well-branched plants. The large, pleasantly fragrant flower clusters measure up to 8” long and are sure to be noticed, and admired, from a distance. They make gorgeous cut flowers, too! Low-maintenance plants are fast-growing, heat and drought tolerant, and virtual magnets for butterflies and hummingbirds.

CranRazz Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) Plant