Butterfly Bush Tree

Butterfly bush a native of china seemingly has it all. A medium shrub or woody perennial grows 6 to 8 feet high and 5 to 8 feet wide.

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The butterfly bush is an open multi stemmed shrub growing from three to ten feet tall depending on the variety the stems are brown in color with narrow strips of flaking bark.

Butterfly bush tree. Discover why buddleia is irresistible to pollinators and how to keep them blooming longer. Davidii is named after the french missionary and explorer. Regular dead heading will promote new blooms.

Both emit an irresistible scent. It is widely used as an ornamental plant and many named varieties are in cultivation. Learn how to plant care for and prune butterfly bush in your garden.

Water freely when in growth and sparingly otherwise. Each plant you include in your garden affect the local food web even the beautiful seemingly harmless butterfly bush. Flowers range in colors from purple pink white to orange and they attract all kinds of wildlife some cultivars even produce a wonderful honey scented fragrance that wafts through the breeze.

Thrives in full sun requires well drained organic rich soil. Butterfly bush buddleja is a thankful summer bloomer which grows as a shrub or half shrub rarely as a tree or vine. Late to leaf out in spring.

A butterfly magnet with long season of blooms. Avoid fertilizing butterfly bush. This species originally from asia readily takes over space.

The leaves are shaped like spear heads and can be up to eight inches long. Butterfly bush is an invasive plant meaning it crowds out beneficial plants that have naturally grown in your community for centuries. Doug tallamy phd professor and chair of entomology and wildlife ecology at the university of delaware revealed three hard truths about butterfly bush and why you should stop planting them at home.

It strongly resembles the lilac which already blooms in may. Tree plant care. Caring for butterfly bushes.

Buddleja davidii spelling variant buddleia davidii also called summer lilac butterfly bush or orange eye is a species of flowering plant in the family scrophulariaceae native to sichuan and hubei provinces in central china and also japan. See pictures of the best non invasive butterfly bushes including miss molly and the lo and behold series plus find alternatives for black knight. The butterfly bush can reach growth heights of up to 500 cm and grow 300 cm onto the sides due to branching.

Remove spent flower spikes to encourage new shoots and flower buds. In the summer water if rainfall is less than 1 inch per week. Too much fertility promotes leaf growth over flower production.

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