Desert Butterfly Bush

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. Despite being considered invasive by many ecologists their striking appearance has helped them maintain their popularity in ornamental gardening.

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Desert butterfly bush!!!

These beautiful plants have long spike like blooms and will grow in almost any soil. Flower color varies between varieties from whites and pinks to deep purples. Butterfly bush buddleja buddleia is a genus of hardy flowering plants that produce appealing fragrant flower heads known for attracting butterflies and other insects. Birds bees and especially butterflies are attracted to the fragrant showy flowers.

Height and spread to 10 feet. The butterfly bush should be included in any butterfly or hummingbird garden. Butterfly bushes can grow 5 to 12 feet tall with a spread of 4 to 15 feet. Butterfly bush buddleia davidii full sun to partial shade.

The plant can get 6 to 8 feet high and 3 to 5 feet wide. 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. 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. Fragrant pink orange or purple flowers.

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