Brilliant Blooms that Attract ButterfliesMiss Ruby Butterfly Bush is an ornamental shrub with particular allure to butterflies. Plant one near a path or patio where its vivid color and enticing fragrance is sure to delight you throughout the summer.Your Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush is sure to astound you with its brilliant floral display and seemingly magical allure to pollinators. You’ll enjoy the spikes of hot pink flower clusters that adorn your Miss Ruby mid-summer and persist until the first frost. Many feel that the bright color this Miss Ruby variety presents is the most vibrant of any Butterfly Bush available today. The delicious nectar the blooms produce, sweetened in the midday sun, creates a tempting call to hummingbirds, butterflies and bees…giving the “Butterfly Bush” its name. At times your Butterfly Bush will be so covered with butterflies that the foliage will seem to be alive with movement! Even without the magnificent flowers, Miss Ruby presents a full, lush appearance for your landscape, its elliptic, grey-green leaves a lovely accompaniment to the dazzling blooms. Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush is a deciduous, well-branched bush that will grow to about 3 feet in height. In northern climates it will die back to the ground for winter, but it can also be easily pruned. Deadheading during the summer can increase your blooms, but isn’t necessary. Miss Ruby has no significant disease or insect issues, and both rabbits and deer tend to pass it by. For consistent blooms of high quality, and an abundance of color for your landscape, you can’t go wrong with Miss Ruby. Once you plant one of these superior bushes in your yard, it won’t be long before it’s just as popular with you as it is with your butterflies and other pollinators.* Brilliant blooms * Fragrant * Hardy * Wildlife interest* Drought Tolerant* Attracts Butterflies & Hummingbirds .
Category: Butterfly Bushes
Lo & Behold® Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush
Small Shrub with Large Appeal Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii ‘Blue Chip Jr.’ has a small stature but incredible blooms. Plant a few along an outbuilding for a decorative hedge, or just one in any spot for a lively focal point that’s sure to enliven even the most drab location. The outstanding feature of your Blue Chip Junior Butterfly Bush is of course the profusion of fragrant flowers that repeatedly bloom from mid-June and continue re-blooming right up until the first frost. Each long, floral spike consists of a clustered gathering of tiny florets of delicate blue coloring. The oval leaves provide a dressy accent to the flowers, including a silver tint to the vibrant, green shade. Perhaps best of all, Blue Chip Jr. is (just as the name implies), a smaller version of Blue Chip with a more compact nature. It will fit snugly into many locations in your yard but still perform just as beautifully as its larger relative. Of course another outstanding feature is its irresistible allure to wildlife, including hummingbirds, butterflies and bees that will bring their beauty and delightful nature to your yard (as well as provide their pollination skills). Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush will grow up to 2 feet in height with an equal spread. It has a gentle, rounded nature and compact habit. It’s a fast-growing bush that won’t take long to establish, and won’t demand your time and effort to maintain. May people admire butterfly bushes but simply don’t have the room for one. Blue Chip Jr. is an opportunity to introduce your yard to all the amazing features of a Butterfly bush without the usual need for space. Try one today and you’ll soon see why the Butterfly Bush is a favorite among gardeners. * Fragrant, re-bloomer * Fast growing * Drought tolerant * Works well in containers * Cold hardy.
Black Knight Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Magnet with Purple FlowersBlack Knight Butterfly Bush, Buddelia davidii ‘Black Knight’, is an ornamental shrub that is particularly attractive to butterflies. Planting a few in your front yard will ensure a spectacular floral display and impressive gathering of summertime winged visitors. Plant one near a path or patio and you can enjoy its sweet fragrance too.With a name like Butterfly Bush you might expect a plant to be attractive to butterflies. However this lovely shrub is like a magnet for every butterfly that passes through your garden seeking nectar! The afternoon will bring the best views as the dilute nectar of the honey-scented blossoms is sweetest in midday sun, an irresistible lure to many pollinators. Your Black Knight Butterfly Bush is a vigorous growing deciduous shrub that boasts dark purple flowers from mid-summer into fall. It is easy to grow and generally pest-free. It blooms on new growth and should be pruned back to the ground in spring. If you love flowering shrubs with impressive flowers and the enchanting presence of butterflies in your yard, you can’t go wrong with this easy-to-care-for ornamental shrub.* Attractive to butterflies * Lovely flowers * Easy to care for * Sweet fragrance.
Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush
Lilac Color June through FallNanho Purple Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii ‘Nanho Purple’, is a deciduous shrub with ornamental features. A few of these would make a spectacular hedge for your landscape. If you have a place where fall flowers are lacking, Nanho would also be a great choice to fill in that spot with some late-season color.Your Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush will astound you each June when its petite, lavender flowers appear. The delicate blossoms cluster in long spikes of up to six inches long! The fragrant blooms amid the grey-tinted, green foliage will be a strong lure to pollinators, and just as the name suggests, especially attractive to your butterflies. In fact, sometimes Butterfly Bushes in bloom are so covered with butterflies that the entire shrub seems to vibrate with their excitement! As if this incredible, floral display wasn’t enough, your Nanho will continue to put on its fascinating show throughout summer and sometimes even up until the first frost. Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush will grow up to 5-feet tall with an equal spread. It has a graceful, arching habit and no significant disease or insect issues. Nanho can be left to grow naturally or pruned as desired. It’s a vigorous grower and generally hardy.If you love lilacs, but bemoan their short bloom period, Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush is for you. Why not let this “Summer Lilac” extend your enjoyment of fragrant, lavender flowers well into fall this year!* Fragrant, lavender flowers * Long bloom period * Fast growing* Thrives in full sun.
Miss Violet Butterfly Bush
Violet Flowers Irresistible to ButterfliesLong-blooming, fast-growing, drought tolerant, non-invasive, deer resistant…the list goes on and on! Miss Violet Butterfly Bush seems to have it all as a hardy perennial shrub, but then consider the addition of brilliant, fragrant blooms and you have a plant that is nothing short of amazing!Miss Violet, Buddleia x ‘Miss Violet’, is a butterfly bush variety with long, clustered spikes of violet blossoms that reach out above the dark green foliage in late summer and continue their show into fall. The irresistible fragrance and color acts like a beacon to pollinators, including the butterflies that will hasten to your yard in droves to partake of Miss Violet’s delicious nectar.Your Miss Violet Butterfly Bush is a deciduous, ornamental shrub that will grow up to 5 feet in height with an equal spread. It has an upright habit and semi-compact nature. Miss Violet would be perfect for a wildlife garden but is certainly a welcome addition to any spot where you can sit back and witness the floral show and pollinator-heaven it creates.Butterfly Bushes have always been beloved by gardeners, with worries about invasiveness seeming to be the only significant downside. The “miss series” removes this concern, providing you with options (such as Miss Violet), that can provide all the wonderful features you want in a butterfly bush, but in a non-invasive variety. Plant a Miss Violet Butterfly Bush today and begin to reap the rewards of this amazing selection.* Long-blooming & fragrant* Deer & rabbit resistant* Drought, heat and humidity tolerant* Works well as a cut flower.
Psychedelic Sky Butterfly Bush
Fragrant clear blue flowers draw butterflies from near and far!Psychedelic Sky Butterfly Bush will turn any garden into a haven for butterflies and hummingbirds! Psychedelic Sky (Buddleia davidii) is a 6 to 8 foot tall shrub covered in huge (six to ten inches long!) spikes of fragrant clear blue flowers that are an instant draw to butterflies and hummingbirds. The flowers are strikingly colored and come in droves, ensuring that you will have plenty of great cuts for inside as well as plenty of food for butterflies and hummingbirds outside.Take care to deadhead this beauty and you will have flowers well into autumn. Once winter hits, Psychedelic Sky will die back to the ground in cold winter places. In warmer climates, prune it back in spring to 12 inches to rejuvenate the entire plant.Like all butterfly bushes, Psychedelic Sky does best in full sun – otherwise it will get leggy and sparse. It doesn’t like wet feet, either so give it a place in your garden with good drainage.Psychedelic Sky flowers are a fresh color in buddleais. Plant it with other butterfly attracting plants in shades of yellows, oranges and reds or lavenders and whites.Psychedelic Sky will grow quickly to fill in bare spots in your foundation plantings, borders and beds and they will reach their full height every year. Order yours today!* First Editions® Plants* Fragrant clear blue flowers* Butterfly and hummingbird magnet* Perfect in the herbaceous border.
Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush
Butterflies Love Horizontal ShrubBuddleia Purple Haze Lo and Behold, Buddleia x ‘Purple Haze Lo and Behold’, creates an explosion of fragrant purple-blue flowers from summer to fall! Purple Haze is a dwarf variety that has a horizontal, low spreading, non invasive habit. Its compact size is perfect for smaller gardens and mixed borders–gardeners with limited space can attract butterflies and hummingbirds! It will mature to 2′-3′ high with a width of 4′-5′ in full sun.It is excellent for use as a ground covering plant because it flows outward and downward. Heat and drought tolerant, Purple Haze needs no deadheading and little maintenance. When planted in mass, Purple Haze puts on a great show with its colorful flowers and deep green leaves. Leaves appear in late spring and remains late in fall and it will die to the ground and grow again in spring. The plant flowers on new growth, indicating it should be pruned in spring. * Purple Blue Flowers* Horizontal Growth* Attracts Butterflies and Hummingbirds.