It is called Flutterbye bush. Check it out online. I ordered two Buddleia davidii 'Black Knight' plants that will arrive in May. I would think that dead heading the fading flower heads before they go to seed would not only promote more flowers but also prevent the plant from being invasive.
I guess I'll find out for sure this summer. I never knew you could prune Buddleia davidii intom a tree: very interesting. But I have seen another selection presumed to be from different crossing of same species reseed. I would be wary of anything with B. As soon as it is discontinued, if the specimen remains present beyond this point then it will be able to seed out anywhere there is suitable conditions.
Here barren places such as margins of parking lots, river banks and even the stone faces of older buildings sprout numbers of them. I didn't realize they were so invasive. Well, I'm only planting two of them, so it shouldn't be that hard to keep up I am planting them right next to some Miss Huff Lantanas. I also have Pink caprice Lantanas, Blanket Flowers, and Purple Cone Flowers within the vicinity, so all of that should keep the butterflies and hummers happy this summer.
This is what B davidii will do where it is happy. Picture taken November down the road from my place. As bboy said - it loves stony places including walls. The seeds are prolific and wind borne, so unless you can remove every spent flower before it ripens some will get away.
Someone needs to alert the building engineer of the problem. Worst infestations here are probably those around rivers, where it forms thickets. If there is no surface water it even grows in the river bed, as well as on gravel bars etc.
A river runs right through the middle of the town I live in. Due to the extended drought, it is more like a creek than a river, and there are shrubs and trees growing all over it now. I don't know if any of the shrubs are butterfly bushes though.
The river is about a mile from where I live. I do have quite a bit of barren ground in my backyard, which I am going to sprig it with Bermuda grass this summer.
Hopefully, the Bermuda will help keep any Buddliea seeds from getting down into the soil if I lose the handle on deadheading them. If not, then I'm sure the lawnmower will make short work of them. I wouldn't expect it to come up very often in grass or anywhere else a substantial growth of other plants was already present. Here it seems to be pretty consistent about appearing in bare places, often where there are rocks present to some degree.
It's probably the same situation as with desert cacti, in that the young seedlings survive the harshness of the site by sheltering among rocks.
Those few places I have seen empress trees coming up from seed here were also always rocky - usually, in fact, stone walls or borders - except for a quite moist yet exposed patch of automatically irrigated flower bed across the street.
The summer drought here is quite an inhibitor for any plants not adapted to it or able to get into places where it is ameliorated enough for them get by until fall. Well, it doesn't sound like I have much to be concerned about with Buddleia davidii popping up all over the neighborhood.
I do enjoy dead heading, so I really don't think I will have an issue even if I were surrounded by rivers and stone walls. Here is also widespread along railway tracks, in disused sidings, etc. It loves the ballast, just as bboy says. I have had butterfly bushes for 16 years here central Alabama. In that time, I have had two come up from seed. I am not a reliable at dead-heading.
I currently have 4 of them and love them. It is hot and humid here, and I have clay soil. One of the things about Buddleja's invasiveness is that it does not necessarily self sow near the parent. The seeds are wind born and can travel miles before settling in a conducive spot. I have a lot coming up in my wood a long way from any gardens. I do drive by one frequently that came up in grass, but it is beneath a chain link fence right on the edge of the lawn, in a rough strip where the mower doesn't reach.
There are probably gaps in that part that made it possible for the shrub to take hold. The same section of fence also has broom Cytisus scoparius and I think blackberry Rubus armeniacus growing through it. PLant native!!! OK so maybe a couple of non native And planting native can be hard.. I've been trying and will keep trying. Update: My Buddleia davidii has since been shovel pruned.
I kept getting severe ifestations of Two Spotted Spider Mites. I tried to control them with a jet of water, but that didn't work. I tried to control them with foliar insecticide, but that didn't work either.
The second year was more of the same, but the spider mites began to spread to other plants in my yard. Spider mites can be controlled with a commercial miticide or oil spray, but it is better to keep the plant stress free by providing adequate moisture, soil drainage, and fertilizer.
It is best to minimize chemicals, especially if your goal is to provide a breeding ground for butterflies. Buddleia are considered to be deer resistant. Deer prefer many other plants and will only feed on the butterfly bush as a last resort. The sweetly scented Buddleia flowers attract many types of butterflies and at times, the flowers will be covered with hundreds of them.
Butterfly bush flowers serve as a nectar source for adult butterflies and the leaves too feed the larvae of some butterfly species. Buddleia are host plants to the North American butterfly species listed below: Buddleia 'Summer Beauty'. Bees, wasps, hornets, lady beetles, lacewings and moths also enjoy the flowers. Hummingbirds are attracted by the reddish cultivars. Other birds such as orioles and bushtits will feed on the nectar during the growing season and on the seeds in winter.
Today, there are dozens of Buddleia cultivars on the market. Plant Delights Nursery is proud to have been the first to release two cultivars Buddleia 'Orange Scepter' , and Buddleia davidii 'Potter's Purple' We strive to grow only the most interesting and evocative specimens, as well as some of the newest plants on the market.
Buddleia alternifolia Alternate Leaf Butterfly Bush. Buddleia alternifolia makes a ' tall specimen with weeping branches, clothed in narrow leaves and adorned with long thin panicles of fragrant, light lavender flowers in early spring Do not cut this back in early spring or you will prevent it from blooming since it blooms on the previous seasons growth.
This plant has an arching habit and looks great cascading over a wall. Hardiness Zone Buddleia cordata var. Tony Avent collected seed from this butterfly bush on the mountains between Saltillo and Monterrey, Mexico in In the years since, this has made a superb garden specimen to nearly 15' tall with an equal spread. The branches of grey-green leaves are topped with clusters of dirty white, but very fragrant flowers in fall and winter.
Hardiness Zone 7b, at least. It makes a 5' tall well-branched specimen with small leaves and 10" long dark violet flowers. This is the darkest-flowered of all the buddleias, almost a grape-violet, and always one of the most popular The smaller foliage and shorter stature 50" tall , give Buddleia davidii 'Black Knight' the effect of being more graceful and airy. Hardiness Zone Buddleia davidii 'Black Knight'.
This Mike Dirr selection was named after his wife, Bonnie, and if you know Mike, you know that it must be one fine Buddleia! This giant deer resistant butterfly bush reaches 10' tall and is covered in large grey-green leaves, then topped from June until frost with large 10" panicles of very fragrant, light blue-violet RHS 94D flowers. The flowers are very close to true blue and contrast very well with the fuzzy silver leaves.
This plant grows to 8' tall. Hardiness Zone Buddleia davidii 'Dartmoor'. Buddleia davidii 'Dartmoor' Dartmoor Butterfly Bush. Unlike most butterfly bushes, which end in a single panicle of flowers, Buddleia 'Dartmoor' performs like a good variety of broccoli and produces giant branched flower heads with additional flowering side shoots The medium purple flowers are wonderfully fragrant on this award-winning and large-growing 6' tall English hybrid.
Buddleia davidii 'Harlequin' Harlequin Butterfly Bush. Buddleia 'Harlequin' is a sport of Buddleia 'Royal Red' with creamy bordered leaves, providing a striking 7' tall accent in the garden. The reddish purple flowers top the plant throughout the summer. In the Southeast, it has unfortunately proven to be a weak grower and is very prone to having branches revert to green. We fell in love with this different color hue, almost a clear violet.
Buddleia 'Potters Purple' is a very vigorous, 7' tall, upright deer-resistant grower with very long and fragrant flower panicles.
This vigorous 6' tall oldie but goodie is topped with panicles of very fragrant violet blooms on a large 6' tall, upright plant Hardiness Zone This hybrid from Good and Reese Nursery in Ohio is still one of the most sought-after of the butterfly bushes. Each ' tall specimen is topped, from early summer through fall, with small panicles of delightfully fragrant, brilliant violet flowers RHS 81A Hardiness Zone Buddleia davidii 'Royal Red'.
Buddleia 'Santana' is one of the most stunning buddleias that we've ever grown. Unfortunately, it's also one of the shortest lived. For some reason, this vigorous grower makes a nice 6' tall clump, and then inexplicably dies almost overnight.
It's a real shame, because the variegated leaves that are green with a wide yellow margin are topped with reddish-purple then flowers that compliment the foliage.
This is one of the best white butterfly bush cultivars that we have found, with a nice dense growth habit to 6' tall, and absolutely smothered in rigidly upright fragrant white spikes all summer long. Buddleia davidii v.
This 6' tall introduction from the Boskoop Experiment Station in Holland has remarkably large bloom panicles of white, much longer than any of the other white butterfly bush cultivars that we have grown. From the breeding program at the Boskoop Experiment Station in Holland comes a smaller leaved butterfly bush that still reaches 6' tall, contrary to some garden catalogs. The narrow silvery foliage is highlighted with the bluish flowers that are produced all summer.
From the Boskoop, Holland breeding program comes a lovely dark violet flowered form of the Nanho series of buddleias. The narrow leaves on a 6' tall plant serve as a nice light foil for the violet blooms all summer. If you like butterfly bushes, then you are going to love this one!
This is a white-flowering look-alike to Buddleia 'Lochinch' that we first received from Henry Ross of Gardenview. The foliage is felty grey, and the 4' tall clump is topped with delicious, long white flower panicles.
Buddleia lindleyana Lindley's Butterfly Bush Buddleia lindleyana. This little-known Chinese species has shiny green leaves, cinnamon trunks, and graceful 2' long pendulous panicles of medium-lavender flowers that progressively open like a sparkler during the summer months. Our clone Buddleia lindleyana came from giant specimens in the Bolivia, NC garden of the late Francis Marion Galloway, where they have grown since the s. We have limbed up our 7' tall specimen as a walk-underneath feature Its only bad habit is being stoloniferous, and that seems to slow slightly with age.
It has long, narrow, sage-like evergreen leaves and is a tidy round 4' tall shrub. The flowers are small cymes with a creamy white or yellow color and appear in June and July. This one flowers on old wood and if pruning is ever needed, it should be done in July when the flowering cycle has just finished.
Hardiness Zone 7b This is really cute, but completely unknown outside of its native Texas. In reality, you probably wouldn't recognize it if you saw it, as it looks more like a cross between a Buddleia and a lamb's ear. Buddleia marrubifolia makes a compact bush to 4' with small, round, felty, silver dollar-sized leaves.
From late spring through the summer, the tips of each branch are home to marble-sized fuzzy orange balls Buddleia marrubifolia is native to limestone slopes, so good drainage is essential.
Buddleia nivea var. Buddleia nivea hails from southern China, where it makes huge, vigorous plants to 15' tall. The clumps are topped all summer with large terminal panicles of pale lavender. This 55" tall buddleia is a seedling from UGA's guru of woody plants, Dr. Mike Dirr. The plant was eventually named by Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana.
Buddleia 'Attraction' is toward the red-purple spectrum and a dramatic improvement over Buddleia 'Royal Red'. This is a tremendous breakthrough in butterfly bush breeding, and who knows?
Gardeners who want to attract butterflies to their gardens often plant butterfly bush genus Buddleia , a fast growing shrub that blooms prolifically. While butterfly bush is easy to grow, inexpensive to buy, and a good attractant for butterflies, some argue it's one of the worst choices for a butterfly garden.
For years, butterfly bush Buddleia has divided gardeners into two camps: those who plant it without apology, and those who think it should be banned.
Fortunately, it's now possible to plant butterfly bushes without negatively impacting the environment. Buddleia is well-loved by butterfly gardeners because it is well-loved by butterflies. It blooms from spring to fall depending on your growing zone , and produces an abundance of nectar-rich flowers that butterflies cannot resist. Butterfly bush is easy-to-grow and tolerates poor soil conditions.
It requires almost no maintenance, other than an annual hard pruning and some gardeners even skip that. Unfortunately, a plant that produces such a bumper crop of flowers also produces a bumper crop of seeds. Buddleia is not native to North America; butterfly bush is an exotic plant from Asia. Ecologists deemed the shrub a threat to native ecosystems, as butterfly bush seeds escaped backyard gardens and invaded forests and meadows. Some states banned the sale of Buddleia and listed it as a noxious, invasive weed.
For commercial growers and nurseries, these bans were consequential. Despite Buddleia 's environmental impact, gardeners still wanted their butterfly bushes, and growers wanted to continue producing and selling it. Butterfly bush has been declared invasive in many regions including much of the Pacific Northwest, parts of coastal California and along the eastern seaboard. There are regions where the threat of invasive spreading is lower due to climate or availability, but some gardeners still choose to steer clear.
See more, at InvasivePlantAtlas. If you live in one of the invasive areas and already grow butterfly bush, your best course of action is to dig up your plant and replace it with one of the sterile types shown above. However, if you deadhead butterfly bush meticulously before it goes to seed you may be able to halt the spread. Get plant information, gardening solutions, design inspiration and more in our weekly newsletter. More about the newsletter.
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