Growing advice for butterfly bush in pots To begin, choose a large pot, at least 12 to 16 inches wide, with a good-sized drainage hole. Providing plenty of room to grow will prevent you from ...

Q. We’re hoping to plant a garden that will attract butterflies. Growing up, we had a butterfly bush I loved because it always seemed to have butterflies on it. One of my neighbors says that ...

The appeal of a butterfly bush can’t be denied. Impressive panicles of tiny blooms, a fast-growing habit, and the perception that it’s a friend to pollinators—sounds great, right? Not so fast.

Less-invasive butterfly bush cultivars include the Pugster series from Proven Winners, which offers full-sized flowers on a compact plant; as well as the Lo & Behold series and the ‘Miss’ series.

One of the fastest-growing flowering shrubs, a butterfly bush can easily put on 5 feet or more of new growth in a single season. Learning how and when to prune a butterfly bush can help you keep ...

The butterfly bush has all of the attributes of a dream plant. It is easy to grow, produces an abundance of fragrant blooms that bring in hordes of butterflies and is drought-tolerant.

Butterfly bush offers a wonderful, late summer fragrance. It's a fragrance that might transport you back to your childhood. Butterfly bush is not just for smelling though. The plant is also well ...

Then two little butterfly bushes sprang up, one about 5 feet away from the mother plant and the other about 10 feet away. Should I dig them up and replant them? Can they survive winters in big pots?

Not surprisingly, my choice new plant for 2018 is the blue butterfly bush (Clerodendrum ugandense.) It’s my first blue flowering plant – and to quote my friend, Virginia, “I’m crazy about ...

The woolly butterfly bush (Buddleia marrubiifolia) is a near-native from the neighboring Chihuahuan desert. It’s a great pollinator plant, has attractive grey-green leaves and bright orange ...

While butterfly bushes don’t need much water and bloom beautiful flowers, they have a bad side too. In many places in North America, some species of butterfly bushes (Buddleia) are invasive.