23+ Desert Butterfly Bush

Blooms june september. Flower color varies between varieties from whites and pinks to deep purples.

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Desert butterfly bush

Birds bees and especially butterflies are attracted to the fragrant showy flowers. Butterfly bushes can grow 5 to 12 feet tall with a spread of 4 to 15 feet. This evergreen shrub is tolerant of burning sun and scorching heat and extreme drought only intensifies the beautiful silvery sheen of the plant s soft fuzzy grey green foliage.

The butterfly bush should be included in any butterfly or hummingbird garden. Butterfly bush buddleia davidii a perennial that attracts butterflies hummingbirds and bees with its large fragrant panicles. As the common name suggests woolly butterfly bush is a butterfly favorite and will have them massing around its slightly fragrant ball shaped clusters of flowers from march through august.

Despite being considered invasive by many ecologists their striking appearance has helped them maintain their popularity in ornamental gardening. Butterfly bush buddleja is a deciduous shrub that does very well in the desert southwest. They like full sun or partial shade and lots of water for the first 2 years or so and is a perennial in the southwest.

The plant can get 6 to 8 feet high and 3 to 5 feet wide. This plant provides a strong lilac fragrance. Height and spread to 10 feet.

These beautiful plants have long spike like blooms and will grow in almost any soil. Butterfly bush buddleia davidii full sun to partial shade. Fragrant pink orange or purple flowers.

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