28 Butterfly Bush Maryland

Buddleia 3 in 1 flowering shrub with red white and purple flowers. Butterfly bush is most invasive in dry open ground and will colonize waste areas with well drained soil.

I Just Look Short Wednesday July 14 2010

télécharger Butterfly bush maryland!!!

The butterfly bush is medium to large sized shrub that can be used in a perennial bed or as a hedge. This species originally from asia readily takes over space. Butterfly bush also called summer lilac is a deciduous shrub bearing wands of purple pink or white flowers at the branch tips from summer to fall. Armitage thought that the pugster butterfly bush varieties were some of the best so far of the compact dwarf butterfly bushes being compact in growth and very cold hardy.

Pugster periwinkle grows only 2 feet tall and 2 3 feet wide with very sturdy stems capable of holding the huge flower heads that that the pugster butterfly bushes. Its flowers come in many colors though butterflies seem to prefer the lavender pink mauve of the species to the white and dark purple cultivars. They usually bloom from mid july through frost. Exude a fragrance much like lilacs.

And thanks to the magic of cultivar developers the flowers now come in a number of colors including pink and blue. Butterfly bush is an invasive plant meaning it crowds out beneficial plants that have naturally grown in your community for centuries. See the table below for more information on plants for butterflies. These plants are referred to as host plants.

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