Proven Winner Butterfly Bush | |
Butterfly Bush | |
Buddleia x 'Miss Molly' or Butterfly Bushes, are fantastic shrubs whose fragrant, summer flowers are known to attract butterflies by the masses! These low maintenance deciduous shrubs are deer resistant, do best in full sun, and don't like it wet so make sure to plant them in well-drained soil. Rich red flowers attract butterflies from late spring to fall. For more flowers and compact plants cut back in winter. Remove old flowers to encourage re-blooming. Full sun. FEATURES: Botanical Name: Buddleia x 'Miss Molly' PP23,425 Common Name: Butterfly Bush Miss Molly Features: Fragrant Flower, Heat Tolerant, Drought Tolerant Bloom Time: Summer - Fall Light Requirements: Full Sun Attracts Butterflies,Hummingbirds Resists Deer Mature Plant Size: 4 - 5 feet Zone 5 - 9 Proven Winners® | |
Cut entire plant back to 2' every March and feed with Flowertone. Dead-head remove spent blossoms every 2 weeks during summer. Deep soak with Miracle-gro every 2 weeks of summer. Re-mulch in June and January. | |
Attractive hedge, accent, mass planting or border plant | |
Well drained and moist soil | |
Use for cut flowers. | |
Prune late winter or early spring; spring flowering shrubs after bloom | |
July thru September | |
Light Blue-Purple | |
5x4 | |
3-5' | |
Upright | |
Fast | |
Full Sun | |
-20 to -10 deg. F | |
Keep moist | |
Mid-green, lanceolate leaves, greyish beneath | |
Perennial |