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How to Grow and Care for a Butterfly Bush in your Garden
Buddleia davidii
              
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The Butterfly Bush is a fast growing, drought tolerant, profusely blooming, deciduous shrub that is hardy in USDA zones 5-9
Your Butterfly Bush will produce a multitude of clustering, arching spikes of tiny, fragrant flowers in late summer on branches that will sometimes reach 15' tall.
The dark green, lance shaped leaves are long and course with lighter colored, fuzzy undersides.
Growing Requirements for your Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bushes will grow in almost any type of soil if they are planted in full sun or light shade.
Prune them hard in early spring and always remove spent flowers promptly for a longer lasting flower display.
Pinching out the tips of new top growth will promote a more compact and bushier shrub.
Growing Butterfly Bush Plants from Seed
Butterfly Bush seeds can be sown in the garden during late spring and summer months, up until two months before the first frost.
Seeds that are started indoors, in early spring and kept at 75° will germinate in about three weeks may produce flowers during the first fall. |
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Butterfly Bush
Buddleia davidii
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