If you’re looking for a flowering shrub that will add beauty to your garden, then you should consider planting a butterfly bush. There are many different butterfly bush varieties, and each one has its own unique characteristics. Below you’ll find some information about the most popular types of butterfly bushes with links to where you can buy them.
Butterfly Bush Varieties – Types of Butterfly Bushes
Miss Violet Butterfly Bush
Miss Violet Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Long-blooming, fast-growing, drought-tolerant, non-invasive, deer resistant…the list goes on and on! Miss Violet Butterfly Bush seems to have it all as a hardy perennial shrub, but then consider the addition of brilliant, fragrant blooms and you have a plant that is nothing short of amazing!
Miss Violet, (Buddleia x ‘Miss Violet’, PP28,448) is a butterfly bush variety with long, clustered spikes of violet blossoms that reach out above the dark green foliage in late summer and continue their show into fall. The irresistible fragrance and color acts as a beacon to pollinators, including the butterflies that will hasten to your yard in droves to partake of Miss Violet’s delicious nectar.
Miss Violet Butterfly Bush is a deciduous, ornamental shrub with an upright habit and semi-compact nature. Miss Violet would be perfect for a wildlife garden but is certainly a welcome addition to any spot where you can sit back and witness the floral show and pollinator-heaven it creates.
Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush
Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘Miss Ruby’ PP19,950) is an ornamental shrub with particular allure to butterflies. Plant one near a path or patio where its vivid color and enticing fragrance is sure to delight you throughout the summer.
Your Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush is sure to astound you with its brilliant floral display and seemingly magical allure to pollinators. You’ll enjoy the spikes of hot pink flower clusters that adorn your Miss Ruby mid-summer and persist until the first frost.
Many feel that the bright color this Miss Ruby variety presents is the most vibrant of any Butterfly Bush available today. The delicious nectar the blooms produce, sweetened in the midday sun, creates a tempting call to hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees…giving the “Butterfly Bush” its name.
At times your Butterfly Bush will be so covered with butterflies that the foliage will seem to be alive with movement! Even without the magnificent flowers, Miss Ruby presents a full, lush appearance for your landscape, its elliptic, grey-green leaves a lovely accompaniment to the dazzling blooms.
Miss Ruby Butterfly Bush is a deciduous, well-branched bush. In northern climates, it will die back to the ground for winter, but it can also be easily pruned.
Deadheading during the summer can increase your blooms but isn’t necessary. Miss Ruby has no significant disease or insect issues, and both rabbits and deer tend to pass it by.
Miss Molly Butterfly Bush
Miss Molly Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Make a showy splash with the bold visual impact of Miss Molly Butterfly Bush (Buddleia x ‘Miss Molly’ PP23425). The spicy blooms are some of the brightest red-pink on the market.
You’ll enjoy months of gorgeous clustered blossoms from summer through fall. Miss Molly Butterfly Bush exhibits its sangria-red flowers on a mounded, bushy plant and blooms in late summer until the first hard frost.
Monarch butterflies adore this late-season nectar resource before migration. Jewel-toned hummingbirds love them, too. They’ll coordinate beautifully with the intensely rich hues of Miss Molly’s flower spikes.
The arching blooms are fragrant and extend up and above the lush foliage. No one can miss the flower power of these deep pinky-red blossoms!
Miss Molly has a full, bushy, branching habit that supports more flower heads. They stay shapely all season and are field-tested for many years to stay put where you plant them without self-seeding.
Buzz™ Hot Raspberry Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Hot Raspberry Butterfly Bush (View Price)
If you want a fool-proof butterfly-attracting garden, Buzz Hot Raspberry Butterfly Bush is the place to start. This new Buddleia davidii is taking the garden world by storm. Be the first in your neighborhood to have this beauty.
The list of wonderful qualities of this Butterfly Bush is long. For starters, it is more compact and less gangly than the species so it is the perfect fit for smaller gardens. It’s not a dwarf, though, so it still gives you a good vertical presence. (This also makes it a perfect plant for larger containers.) The flowers are unforgettable. Long tapering spikes of bright hot, raspberry-pink florets bloom continuously from spring to fall. They are famously fragrant, to you and to pollinators.
Whether you put them in your borders or in pots around your patio, make sure that you place them where you can enjoy their fragrance and the hordes of butterflies they are going to attract!
Pink Delight Butterfly Bush
Pink Delight Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Pink Delight Butterfly Bush is a deciduous shrub with superb ornamental features. Plant one as a focal point for your front yard. You could also use several in a side yard where its flowers can dress up your summer/fall landscape (at a time when fewer flowers are in bloom).
The outstanding feature of your Pink Delight Butterfly Bush is its amazing flowers. Every June (and well into autumn), the tiny, deep-pink blossoms cluster along 15-inch, conical protuberances of floral brilliance. This miracle of nature is repeated all over the grey-hued, green foliage amid the elegantly arching branches.
As if the beauty of your flowers weren’t enough, the fragrance of the blossoms is every bit as enticing as their appearance! A scintillating addition to your yard, and are a strong lure to pollinators, your Pink Delight’s scent will create a captivating experience. The dilute nectar is sweetest in the midday sun when the honey-scented blossoms are simply irresistible.
Pink Delight Butterfly Bush will grow up to six feet in height with an equal spread. It’s a hardy bush, with no insect or disease issues to cause you concern. Pink Delight is a vigorous shrub and a magnet to any pollinator passing near your yard. It’s generally hardy and quite easy to grow.
BiColor Butterfly Bush
BiColor Butterfly Bush (View Price)
BiColor Butterfly Bush (Buddleia x weyeriana ‘Bicolor’), is the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom! It is an intensely fragrant, long-blooming Butterfly Bush with profuse yellow and lavender blooms – amazing lavender-hued while the buds are just forming, opening to peachy-pink with a yellow cast as it ages!
Dazzle all your neighbors and your local butterflies with this unique new Butterfly Bush that blooms from July until fall. The panicles grow up to 10 inches long and show up well against the clean grey-green foliage.
This deciduous bush comes to life in the early spring with a flush of fantastic gray-green leaves. This by itself makes Butterfly Bush a go-to for gardeners!
Lo & Behold® Blue Chip Butterfly Bush
Lo & Behold® Blue Chip Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Keep your local butterflies happy with a Lo & Behold® Blue Chip Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘Blue Chip Lo and Behold’ PP 19,991). This pretty shrub will please your butterflies, your local hummingbirds, and anyone else who feasts their eyes on its lovely blue and purple flowers. This compact shrub grows in a mounded structure, so it will fill your garden with beauty upward and outward. Just be careful: you may love this non-invasive as much as the butterflies do!
This miniature Buddleia was the first in a series of stunning butterfly bushes with a long-lasting blooming season. You can anticipate spikes of flowers from summer through late fall. These lovely bluish-purple flowers are both gorgeous and fragrant.
And luckily, you won’t have to work too hard to enjoy these reblooming blossoms! You don’t need to prune your Lo and Behold Blue Chip Butterfly Bush or deadhead it. You will want to cut it back to the ground before spring, though. A later winter cutting helps ensure the best performance and best flowers.
We’re not the only ones that think this plant is a winner. It’s won the Best New Plant in several competitions, a “showstopper” award, and even a gold medal!
Like most butterfly favorites, this deciduous plant is drought tolerant and not on any deer’s menu of favorite snacks. The Lo & Behold Blue Chip Butterfly Bush grows well in medium to dry soil but won’t thrive in wet conditions. Plant this shrub in full sun.
This fun and lively plant makes a spectacular groundcover. Plant a few around your butterfly garden to attract butterflies and hummingbirds! This stunning miniature plant will also make a dainty and special patio or balcony container plant.
Miss Pearl Butterfly Bush
Miss Pearl Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Imagine a fast-growing shrub that is so sweet and fragrant, it’s commonly called a “butterfly bush”. Miss Pearl Butterfly Bush is an outstanding variety of these amazing low-maintenance bushes, beloved for its east of care and beautiful display. With Miss Pearl, (Buddleia x ‘Miss Pearl’ PP28553), you can count on a reliable shrub in spring, with dark green foliage providing a vibrant presence in your yard.
By late summer, when your other flowering plants are completing their show, your Miss Pearl Butterfly Bush will burst forth in long, narrow clusters of white blossoms. The pristine flowers shoot up above the foliage to sway in the breeze and attract pollinators with their delicious scent. The fabulous show persists into fall until your Miss Pearl Butterfly Bush conveniently dies back to the ground for a tidy winter appearance in your yard and well-deserved winter’s rest.
Your Miss Pearl Butterfly Bush is a deciduous, ornamental shrub with a semi-compact nature and is both drought and heat tolerant. Miss Pearl looks perfect in a mixed border or butterfly garden, but will even do well in containers on your patio. En Masse, or single, Miss Pearl always demands to be the center of attention!
Pugster Periwinkle® Butterfly Bush
Pugster Periwinkle® Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Butterfly Bushes are some of the most loved garden plants in modern gardens, and not just by gardeners, but by hummingbirds, bees, and, of course, butterflies. Problem is that these plants can get to be pretty huge. Six feet tall and just as wide is pretty common. That alone will often take them out of the running for smaller, urban gardens.
Until now!
The Pugster line of Buddleia that was developed by Proven Winners is bred to be naturally dwarf. They only get a couple of feet tall and wide. This means that they can fit anywhere in any-sized garden.
That is all well and good, but do you have to compromise flower size to get a smaller bush size? We are happy to report that the answer is no! These little beauties pump out full-sized panicles of honey-scented blooms all summer and into the fall just like their big brothers. (And like all Proven Winners Buddleias it doesn’t require deadheading to keep blooming all season for you!) You’ll have plenty for cutting to bring inside and still have tons left to invite your pollinator friends over for a visit.
Pugster Periwinkle®, (Buddleia x ‘SMNBDO’, PP28796) is a gorgeous shade of soft, true lavender, but don’t let the soft color fool you. This is a tough plant with thick, strong stems that can handle even the coldest of zone 5 winters far better than most other dwarf plants.
Pugster Blue® Butterfly Bush
Pugster Blue® Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Pugster Blue® (Buddleia x ‘SMNBDBT’ PP28794) is a totally new look in butterfly bushes! If you love butterflies in the garden then these pollinator magnets are going to be the biggest little thing to hit your garden this year. Proven Winners has developed a new line of buddleia that are true space-savers, just right for beds, borders, and containers. All they ask for is full sun and steady water!
But do you want to know the best thing? Even though the plants are small, the flowers aren’t! Pugster Blue® is covered with full-sized panicles that are the same size as bigger butterfly bushes and that have the same honey-sweet scent.
And do you want to know the second-best thing? There is no deadheading required to keep them blooming all summer for you! Go ahead and cut all of the flowers you want – .you’ll still have plenty left to please the legions of butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees that are coming to visit!
Pugster Blue® flowers are a bright true sky-blue with a tiny pop of orange in the center of each individual bloom. You can’t help but stop and look! Its beauty might make it seem fragile, but this is one tough plant! It laughs at even the coldest zone 5 winters.
Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush
Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Nerve fear! Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush (Buddleia x ‘SMNBDL’ PP30,236) is here to fill your garden up with all of the beauty of the bigger butterfly bushes in a quarter of the space.
Growing a Butterfly Bush is one of the pure joys of the summer garden. The colors are gorgeous and the scent is heavenly…and butterflies overwhelmingly agree!
Pugster has full-sized (and sometimes even bigger!) flowers, just like the full-sized shrubs, but on lush plants that maintain a smaller footprint.
Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush are usually back-of-the-border shrubs, tall, and a little lanky with big arching stems that end in big cone-shaped panicles of richly hued flowers. Unfortunately, not every garden has room for these big boys.
Pugster Amethyst is an icy shade of cool purple that looks great in the garden and is especially pretty in the vase. They have thick stems that are tailor-made for cutting, too.
Don’t worry about cutting the flowers to bring inside. Pugster Amethyst is a flower machine and will keep blooming for you all summer up to the first frost. (Speaking of frost, Pugsters are very cold hardy, down to -20!).
You’ll want to use these little gems in the front of the border, in pollinator gardens, and to fill in gaps in your perennial flower beds. They work great in containers, too!
Nanho Blue Butterfly Bush
Nanho Blue Butterfly Bush (View Price)
The Nanho Blue Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘Nanho Blue’) is hands down one of the most striking of all of the butterfly bushes. This isn’t the typical purple, lavender or rose buddleia; this is a gentian blue that looks brilliant all season long.
This super hardy plant loves full sun and thrives in almost any soil. In warmer climates, it can grow to 10 feet tall. In cold winter areas it will die to the ground but come back even stronger in the spring.
Just like its name says, this shrub is a siren to butterflies, and also hummingbirds. They will be drawn to your Nanho Blue from all over the garden. Plant this where you can watch all the action.
Butterfly Magic™ Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Magic™ Butterfly Bush (View Price)
What’s better than one? Two. And what’s better than two? Three! So imagine our delight when the makers of Butterfly Magic„¢ Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘Black Knight’, Buddleia davidii ‘Pink Delight’, Buddleia davidii ‘White Profusion’) stuck three different colored bushes into one container!
That’s right when you order this bush, you’re actually getting three different plants that have come together to create a stunning collection of purples, pinks, and whites. What more could you ask for?
Let’s break it down, this deciduous bush comes to life in the spring with a flush of fantastic green foliage. This by itself makes Butterfly Magic a go-to for gardeners.
Of course, who buys a butterfly bush for the foliage? However, it does make a gorgeous background for the flowers to come.
Each Summer, this bush will bloom a plethora of pretty flowers in shades of pink, purple and white. You’ll never have to pick just one color again! Talk about a dream come true!
As if the colors themselves weren’t enough, these flower spikes are delightfully fragrant. You’ll find yourself snagging a few off the bush and bringing them inside to brighten up a dining room or kitchen counter.
True to its name, Butterfly Magic will attract butterflies like a magnet, or like…magic! Forgive the pun because the number of butterflies, hummingbirds and other beneficial pollinators you’ll have in your garden will be no laughing matter!
Buzz™ Midnight Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Midnight Butterfly Bush (View Price)
We have a lot of good news to share about this special line of sterile, small Butterfly Bushes! The compact Buzz„¢ line has been field-tested for years and is not considered invasive.
Support the nectar needs of local butterflies and pollinators with these charming, small-scale flower factories. Buzz„¢ Midnight Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii ‘TOBUDMIDNI’) also gives you a wonderfully free-flowering display of lusciously long panicles of deep purple blooms for months!
More eggplant than amethyst, Buzz Midnight blooms are composed of many hundreds of tiny flowers. You’ll be thrilled to see how popular they are with butterflies.
Keep your camera nearby! Monarch and Swallowtail butterflies are among the many varieties that will come to call.
Lo & Behold Ruby Chip® Butterfly Bush
Lo & Behold Ruby Chip® Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Plant scientists and breeders are working hard to bring small, reblooming plants to market. After all, modern landscape trends call for a big color punch without having to devote too much space to it.
Get that bold ruby color you crave in a nice compact plant. With Lo & Behold Ruby Chip® Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii x ‘SMNBDD’ PP# 32,399), the blooms just keep coming.
From mid-summer through frost, you’ll get super-showy bloom panicles. Not only do you get to enjoy their outstanding visual impact…so will your local pollinators and hummingbirds.
Feel great about this petite choice. You won’t even need to deadhead the blooms…as they just keep coming.
No need to worry about invasive seedlings so common to the old-fashioned species of Buddleia. Lo & Behold Ruby Chip produces non-invasive blooms.
They’ll stay well-behaved, compact, and tidy for you without the mess. Grow them in the ground, or keep them in pots on your patio or balcony.
Cherish the long, curved blooms as they start out a fiery ruby-red. Watch for hints of magenta will come on as they mature. The blooms finally age to a lovely pink.
You’ll see all three colors on a single plant at the same time! This shrub truly puts on a spectacular show.
Pugster Pink® Butterfly Bush
Pugster Pink® Butterfly Bush (View Price)
If you love butterflies in the garden then you are bound to be familiar with Butterfly Bushes. These pollinator magnets are butterfly garden staples. Unfortunately, these beauties are often so big that they are impractical for smaller, urban gardens. They can easily reach 6 feet tall and just as wide before the summer is done.
Thankfully Proven Winners has developed a new line of Buddleia that are the perfect space-savers. Pugster Butterfly Bushes only get a couple of feet tall and wide – just right for borders, beds and containers. They’ll fit anywhere there is full sun!
And do you want to know the best thing? Even though the plants are dwarf, the flowers are not! These little beauties are covered with full-sized panicles of honey-scented blooms all summer and into the fall just like the bigger plants are – and like all Proven Winners Buddleias there is no deadheading required to keep them blooming all season for you! Go ahead and cut armloads of the flowers. The stems are strong and thick and perfect for cutting. You’ll still have plenty left to please the butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees that are sure to come visit.
Pugster Pink®, (Buddleia x ‘SMNBDPT’, PP 28836) is a happy, taffy-pink that will draw your attention from all over the garden, but don’t let the soft color fool you. This is one tough plant that handles even the coldest zone 5 winters without a problem.
Pugster White® Butterfly Bush
Pugster White® Butterfly Bush (View Price)
People rave about these personable small shrubs! You’ll look forward to the substantial blooms on these natural dwarfs each year.
Memorable Pugster White® Butterfly Bush (Buddleia x ‘SMNBDW’ PP# 28,795) is a beautifully durable option for either in-ground growing or container culture. You’ll find plenty of ways to enjoy their ornamental charms from mid-summer all the way through fall.
We’re thrilled to grow these tiny shrubs because they are just plain cute. Even the nectar-rich blooms often display a fun, little lyrical twist at the end.
Decorate the balcony of your chic loft with their snowy-white panicles kept in slate-gray pots. Or order dozens for a long, continuous neutral ribbon along your sunny borders.
No matter how or where you place them, Pugster White will create a magical experience for you and your guests. Gain a fantastic visual interest, and support the nectar needs of butterflies, pollinators, and hummingbirds at the same time.
Sturdy Pugster White® Butterfly Bush spreads wider than tall. They feature stolid stems that stand up to cold winters.
Fresh white blooms of astounding size start pumping in the middle of the growing season…after many plants have gone and gone. The flower power doesn’t quit, and you won’t have to mess with deadheading, either.
Count on these field-tested Proven Winners® to perform for you year after year! Even beginning gardeners have great results with these low-maintenance plants.
Grow several of them, so you have enough of their honey-scented blooms to bring for indoor cut flower arrangements. Add some of the gray-green foliage as a perfect foil in your vase.
These popular plants are a modern cultivar of Buddleia. The old-fashioned species may still be regulated in your area. Type in your zip code to see if we can safely ship Pugster White® Butterfly Bush to you.
Grand Cascade Butterfly Bush
Grand Cascade Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Add a sculptural focal point in your Butterfly Garden with a Butterfly Bush covered with enormous, lavender-purple flowering panicles! Put Grand Cascade Butterfly Bush (Buddleja x ‘Grand Cascade’ PP# 30868) to work as a showy, nectar-rich resource for your precious local ecology and doesn’t display seeding!
Enjoy watching jewel-toned hummingbirds cavort and dip into the cascading display of drooping blooms. Each thick panicle measures a foot or more and grows out, down and away from the shrub!
You won’t believe how much visual impact they make in your landscape. The beautiful shade of purple partners beautifully with many other flowers.
Snip a few for an amazing cut flower arrangement. Or, let them fill in at the back of your sunny perennial border.
They are great for screening and solve some important privacy concerns for you. Use multiples in a zigzagging planting pattern spaced four feet apart on center.
You’ll hide unsightly views or block nosey neighbors in a delightful way. They grow quickly…so by the time summer is in full swing, you’ll feel secure without a heavy feeling of oppression.
Give them a spot in full sun with well-drained soil. Try them near a window or doorway, where you’ll be able to smell their honey-scented blooms.
Pink Cascade Butterfly Bush
Pink Cascade Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Make an easy splash in the second half of the growing season! You’ll fall in love with the vibrant apple blossom-pink, elongated pink flowers that cascade out and down dripping with color.
Enjoy oversized blooms summer and fall from the high-performance Pink Cascade Butterfly Bush (Buddleja x ‘Pink Cascade’ PP# 30711). Part of the esteemed Cascade collection, this weeping wonder brings a delightfully romantic look to your summer landscape.
It’s large enough to grace the backdrop of a border, and dense enough to pull double duty as an effective screening plant. No matter how you use it, the local butterflies, hummingbirds and beneficial pollinators will visit faithfully.
Pink Cascade Butterfly Bush makes a very thoughtful gift plant for a nature lover. This series isn’t known to self-seed, either!
Of course, you can also simply trim the enormous blooms before they finish fading for a last hurrah as a cut flower indoors. Your guests will think you are an expert arranger with their huge flower power.
Include some of the minty-green leaves for filler. The overall cool tones makes an excellent contrasting combination with the flowers in the vase and on the bush, too!
Each fragrant, 10-inch pink bloom is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers. The large blooms point down and out…truly cascading from the top to the bottom of this lush shrub with its upright habit.
Windy Hill Butterfly Bush
Windy Hill Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Drought Tolerant Once Established Perk up the look of your landscape with this hard-working modern cultivar! You’ll gain a showy, compact shrub that provides nectar-rich blooms when most other plants are finished flowering for the season.
Entice those beautiful butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard with Windy Hill Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii ‘Windy Hill’). This is a robust, upright selection with lilac-pink flowers and sweet orange centers.
Sun-loving Butterfly Bush offers a big benefit for local pollinators, too. Plant them in your borders, or keep them in containers for your patio or balcony.
Monarch butterflies really appreciate the nutritious nectar as they gear up for their long, annual migration south. Pair this with late-blooming perennials like Sedum, Anemone and Aster for a welcome addition to your Butterfly Garden.
The flowering panicles are held at the tips of the branches. Enjoy their honey-scent in a prominent position.
Use a single Windy Hill Butterfly Bush as a specimen in a small space garden, and you’ll have a wonderful focal point to study all the butterflies that visit. Keep your camera handy to capture their antics!
Make the most of their cool, gray-green foliage and an upright, spreading habit. Install several in a zigzagging planting pattern three feet apart on center for an effective mass planting.
Fill your bare, open areas with their spicy blooms. The contrast of soft summer lilac and bright orange catches your eye, but won’t overwhelm you, either.
Buzz™ Sky Blue Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Sky Blue Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Add a plant you’ll feel great about this season! For deliciously cool-toned lavender-blue blooms and silvery, gray-green foliage, the naturally dwarf Buzz Sky Blue Butterfly Bush, (Buddleia davidii BUZZ„¢ ‘Sky Blue’) can’t be beat.
Stunning, 6-inch spikes of clustered blossoms arch up and above the graceful, elliptical foliage. You won’t be the only one who is impressed by these showy blooms!
Buzz Sky Blue Butterfly Bushes are compact, woody perennials that have an incredible allure to pollinators. They are nectar powerhouses and attract butterflies, hummingbirds and honeybees.
With blooms that last from summer through fall, planting these will provide a critical nectar resource for Monarch butterflies as they prepare for their annual migration. You can add them into a fully integrated Butterfly Garden complete with host plants for caterpillars.
Or, you can start small by using them in containers on either side of your garden gate. However you use them, your local pollinators will appreciate it.
This improved cultivar won’t get lanky, leggy or self-seed. It simply performs beautifully for you, year after year. The flowers smell terrific, too.
Buzz™ Ivory Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Ivory Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Buzz Ivory Butterfly Bush, Buddleja hybrida ‘Buzz Ivory’ , is an ornamental shrub with particular appeal to pollinators and a dwarf size. Plant a few of these lively shrubs in all of those small spaces where you can use a reliable splash of color all summer long…and even into fall.
From May until the first frost, this amazing Butterfly Bush will adorn your landscape with clusters of delicate, ivory blossoms. The long spikes of blooms extend up and out from the bush in a gently cascading fashion, creating the type of dramatic display that is sure to stop you in your tracks when you witness its exceptional beauty.
Buddleja Buzz Ivory also possess’ a scintillating fragrance to draw you in for an even closer look. Standing next to this lovely bush is an enchanting experience as the butterflies flutter about and the hummingbirds buzz by on their way in for a tasty treat. Named a “Butterfly Bush” for its tremendous allure to butterflies and other pollinators, Buzz Ivory will also delight your human guests with its delicious fragrance outdoors, and even indoors when used as a cut flower for your kitchen table.
Buzz Ivory Butterfly Bush has an upright habit and semi-bushy nature. Buzz Ivory is a shorter plant than other varieties and has a more compact nature. The strong branches do an excellent job of holding the immense flowers upright and the bush is prolific, often producing flowers already in the first year. Buzz Ivory is adaptable to a variety of conditions and does well with pruning so you can shape it if you so desire.
First Editions® Groovy Grape™ Butterfly Bush
First Editions® Groovy Grape™ Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Do you want a groovy butterfly garden this year? Turn any space in your garden into a butterfly magnet! First Editions® Groovy Grape„¢ Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘PIIBD-I’ PP 26,305) is a shrub covered in huge (six to ten inches long!) spikes of violet-purple flowers that are an instant draw to butterflies and hummingbirds far and wide. The flowers are strikingly colored and come in droves, ensuring that you will have plenty of great cuts for inside as well as plenty of food for butterflies and hummingbirds outside.
Take care to deadhead this beauty and you will have flowers well into autumn. Once winter hits, Groovy Grape will die back to the ground in cold winter places. In warmer climates, prune it back in spring to 12 inches to rejuvenate the entire plant.
Like all butterfly bushes, Groovy Grape does best in full sun – otherwise it will get leggy and sparse. It doesn’t like wet feet, either so give it a place in your garden with good drainage.
First Editions® Psychedelic Sky™ Butterfly Bush
First Editions® Psychedelic Sky™ Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Psychedelic Sky Butterfly Bush will turn any garden into a haven for butterflies and hummingbirds! First Editions® Psychedelic Sky„¢ Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘PIIBD-III’ PP 26,306) is a shrub covered in huge (six to ten inches long!) spikes of fragrant clear blue flowers that are an instant draw to butterflies and hummingbirds. The flowers are strikingly colored and come in droves, ensuring that you will have plenty of great cuts for inside as well as plenty of food for butterflies and hummingbirds outside.
Take care to deadhead this beauty and you will have flowers well into autumn. Once winter hits, Psychedelic Sky will die back to the ground in cold winter places. In warmer climates, prune it back in spring to 12 inches to rejuvenate the entire plant.
Like all butterfly bushes, Psychedelic Sky does best in full sun – otherwise it will get leggy and sparse. It doesn’t like wet feet, either so give it a place in your garden with good drainage.
Psychedelic Sky flowers are a fresh color in buddleias. Plant it with other butterfly-attracting plants in shades of yellows, oranges, and reds or lavenders and whites.
Psychedelic Sky will grow quickly to fill in bare spots in your foundation plantings, borders, and beds and they will reach their full height every year.
First Editions® Funky Fuchsia™ Butterfly Bush
First Editions® Funky Fuchsia™ Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Turn any garden into a butterfly garden! First Editions® Funky Fuchsia„¢ Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘PIIBD-II’ PP 26,278) is a shrub covered in huge (six to ten inches long!) spikes of reddish-pink flowers that are a magnet to butterflies and hummingbirds. The flowers are strikingly colored and come in droves, ensuring that you will have plenty of great cuts for inside as well as plenty of food for butterflies and hummingbirds outside.
Take care to deadhead this beauty and you will have flowers well into autumn. Once winter hits, Funky Fuchsia will die back to the ground in cold winter places. In warmer climates, prune it back in spring to 12 inches to rejuvenate the entire plant.
Like all butterfly bushes, Funky Fuchsia does best in full sun – otherwise it will get leggy and sparse. It doesn’t like wet feet, either so give it a place in your garden with good drainage.
Funky Fuchsia flowers are such a unique color. Plant it with other butterfly-attracting plants in shades of yellows and oranges or lavenders and blues.
Funky Fuchsia will grow quickly to fill in bare spots in your foundation plantings, borders, and beds. They will reach their full height every year before you can blink.
Buzz™ Magenta Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Magenta Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Magenta Buzz is a dwarf Butterfly Bush with exceptional features. Plant a few in containers for your patio or front porch. These are also wonderful for those small spaces that can use a little color.
Your Magenta Buzz is a remarkable variety of Butterfly Bush that not only possesses’ flowers as large as a full-size bush but does so in such a small size. Each long, 6-inch spike displays a cluster of delicate magenta blossoms. The amazing floral spikes appear on long branches, reaching up from the mounding shrub to cascade out for an elegant, arching appearance.
The prolific flowers begin in early summer and continue on into early fall for a long-lasting display of dramatic color (and irresistible allure to your butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees). Magenta Buzz’ elliptic leaves provide the perfect backdrop for the impressive flowers and maintain a lively appearance for your Butterfly Bush even when not in bloom.
Magenta Buzz is a low-maintenance shrub and overall hardy. Even though it’s a magnet for pollinators, other wildlife (such as deer), tend to leave it alone. Magenta Buzz is even salt-tolerant and does equally as well in containers as it does in the general landscape.
Buzz™ Soft Pink Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Soft Pink Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Buzz„ Soft Pink is a very elegant bush. It is a natural dwarf, shorter and more refined than most other Buddleia. It pumps out the pale-pink flower spikes from summer through frost and stays short the whole time. This makes it perfect for small urban gardens where butterflies are really needing a way-station.
Buzz„¢ Soft Pink looks great massed in a bed, as a solo focal point, or even in a pot on the patio or balcony. This is a great companion to other Buddleia with the purples, whites, and magenta’s you are used to seeing. Try it with a ring of lavender plants for an otherworldly juxtaposition of purple spikes and gently arching, pink flowers waving over them. Where it gets below freezing, Buzz„¢ Soft Pink is will die down to the ground, but will come back faithfully every year to resume its place in your garden.
Purple Emperor™ Butterfly Bush
Purple Emperor™ Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Purple Emperor Butterfly Bush is a newer cultivar of Butterfly Bush that won’t crowd out its neighbors in your garden. It’s most valued for its superior ornamental features that are particularly attractive to butterflies.
The planting possibilities for this beautiful bush are endless. Hedges, rock gardens, and borders are all excellent uses for your Purple Emperor. It will even do well as a container plant on your patio.
Your Purple Emperor’s outstanding feature is of course its long-running, summer bloom. Ten-inch long clusters of delightful, mauve flowers blossom from June right up until the first frost.
Elliptic, serrated green leaves (with a slight gloss), add an elegant accent to the willowy branches and bright blooms. The overall effect is stunning in any setting.
Both the fragrance and appearance of your Purple Emperor is sure to draw both you and your yard’s pollinators with their exquisite attributes.
Peacock™ Butterfly Bush
Peacock™ Butterfly Bush (View Price)
The Butterfly Bush Peacock, ‘Buddleia ‘Peacock’, a Proven Winners selection, is a new cultivar that will not crowd its neighbors in your garden.
They are about one-third the sizes of most Butterfly Bush varieties. The butterflies and hummingbirds still love them.
Fragrant Pink Peacock Butterfly, also known as English Butterfly(TM), are extra bushy and are loaded with colorful flowers. The pink flowers are good sized and have that delightful fragrance.
This plant is perfect for smaller gardens and the mixed border. They can also be used as container plants in milder climates.
Treat this plant as a perennial in cold climates and cut it back in the late fall or early spring. The Peacock exhibits deer resistance.
White Profusion Butterfly Bush
White Profusion Butterfly Bush (View Price)
White Profusion Butterfly Bush is an ornamental shrub noted for exceptional white flowers. These would create a stunning display as a massed planting in your yard for a border or butterfly garden. Plant one near a path or patio and the shrub will provide a delightful fragrance for you as well.
Your White Profusion Butterfly Bush is a steady, reliable bloomer of pure white flowers with delightful yellow eyes. The tiny, individual flowers bloom in a profusion of long, dense trusses. Leaves, with their soft, silvery undersides, provide an elegant complement to the pristine white of the blooms.
This is an ornamental bush with a lot to offer. Its bloom begins mid-summer and continues on into autumn when few other shrubs are in bloom. You’ll be amazed at the multitude of butterflies your shrub draws to your yard every summer, a spectacle you’ll soon anticipate with excitement year after year.
White Profusion is a deciduous bush that dies back to the ground each year but quickly regrows to full height each summer. It is easily grown in average, well-drained soil (in full sun), and generally pest-free.
English Butterfly™ Adonis Blue™ Butterfly Bush
English Butterfly™ Adonis Blue™ Butterfly Bush (View Price)
The Adonis Blue Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii ‘Adokeep’, a Proven Winners selection, is a new cultivar that will not crowd its neighbors in your garden.
They are about one-third the size of most Butterfly Bush varieties, but the butterflies and hummingbirds still love them.
The plants are extra bushy and are loaded with deeply colorful flowers. The deep-blue blooms are good-sized and have that delightful fragrance. The Adonis Blue blooms from mid-summer through fall. Prune this plant in late fall or early spring.
This plant is perfect for smaller gardens, the mixed border garden, and full sun gardens. They can also be used as container plants in milder climates.
In colder climates, the Adonis Blue will die back to the ground but the roots will stay hardy and come back every spring. To promote reblooming, deadhead off old spent blooms!
Fourth Of July Butterfly Bush
Fourth Of July Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Fourth of July Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘Grefoj’). Also known as Tri-Colored Butterfly Bush, is a fast-growing ornamental shrub with particular appeal to pollinators and a repeating, tri-color bloom. Plant one for a one-of-a-kind focal point in your front yard, or use a few along your garage for the most amazing hedge your neighbors will ever see.
Just like a firecracker, Fourth of July Butterfly Bush will explode with color in your landscape every year! The dazzling display of not just one, but three colors, will be a head-turning sight that friends and neighbors are sure to notice. Long spikes of clustered blossoms will reach above your Fourth of July in mid-summer and repeat their stunning bloom of white, pink, and purple flowers well into autumn.
The brilliant color and enticing fragrance are an irresistible lure to hummingbirds, bees…and especially butterflies. In fact, your Tri-Colored Butterfly Bush may be so covered in butterflies, that at times you’ll wonder where the bush ends and the butterflies begin!
It has an upright form, is easy to grow, and requires minimal maintenance. If you prefer a clean winter landscape, your Fourth of July can even be cut back to the ground with no problem.
Lo & Behold® Ice Chip Butterfly Bush
Lo & Behold® Ice Chip Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Lo and Behold® Ice Chip (Buddleia Ice Chip’ PP24,015) is a dwarf ornamental shrub with outstanding flowers that particularly attracts butterflies. It would look terrific in your mixed border or perennial bed.
Like all Butterfly Bushes, your Lo and Behold® Ice Chip is an irresistible lure to butterflies. Summer afternoons will find your plant literally covered in the winged works of art.
This deciduous dwarf shrub has a neat, mounded form that sends its blooms up and out of the foliage all summer and into fall. The flowers consist of long plumes of tiny white flowers, clustered together in an elegant display. Even without its blossoms, your Lo and Behold® Ice Chip is a head-turner for its silver-hued foliage that stands out amid the average green of other plantings.
Your Lo and Behold® Ice Chip is a variety of Butterfly Bush that is particularly long-blooming and compact. It’s a hardy little shrub that won’t require a lot of fussing from you but is tolerant of pruning if you prefer. It is drought tolerant and deer won’t bother it. All in all, it’s hard to find a more attractive shrub for your yard.
Lo & Behold® Lilac Chip Butterfly Bush
Lo & Behold® Lilac Chip Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Lo and Behold Lilac Chip is a deciduous shrub with exceptional flowers from summer to frost. These are perfect for your smaller garden spots where you want something showy but don’t have a lot of room. Plant some in mixed borders, or make an outstanding low hedge.
Imagine being able to have the uniquely elegant lilac flowers in your yard, only with less space requirements and continuous blooms right up until frost. Your Lo and Behold Lilac Chip provides that boon, and far more.
The long spikes of lavender-pink flowers appear in summer and persist right up until frost. Their fragrance is in keeping with their appearance, sure to draw you in for a closer look each time you step outside.
Lo and Behold Lilac Chip is a more compact and rounded variety of Butterfly Bush, it’s also quite hardy and won’t require a lot of special care.
Lo and Behold Lilac Chip is drought tolerant during the summer and frost resistant later in the season. It’s a seedless variety, and you won’t even need to worry about deadheading to ensure its continuous bloom.
Buzz™ Lavender Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Lavender Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Buzz Lavender Butterfly Bush, Buddleja hydrida ‘Buzz Lavender’ ,is an ornamental shrub with a dwarf nature and long-blooming, gorgeous flowers. Plant a few for a short, showy hedge or even just one or two in your perennial bed, where they’re sure to make an impression. Buzz Lavender would even do well in a few containers on your patio.
Your Buzz Lavender has all the remarkable features of a Butterfly Bush but with a smaller stature. It’s the perfect way to bring the color and fragrance of this remarkable shrub to your yard without the need for a lot of space.
Buddleja Buzz Lavender will astound you each year with its prolific bloom of soothing, lavender flowers that begin in late May and will last right up until your first frost. Each collection of delicate, lavender blossoms are clustered upon long, 6-inch spikes that rise above the elliptic, grey-tinted green foliage.
Buzz Lavender Butterfly Bush has an upright, somewhat bushy nature and has a more compact nature than some other, larger varieties. Buzz Lavender is adaptable to a variety of conditions and overall quite hardy.
Lo & Behold® Pink Micro Chip Butterfly Bush
Lo & Behold® Pink Micro Chip Butterfly Bush (View Price)
A newcomer to the Lo & Behold® series of miniature Buddleias, Lo & Behold® Pink Micro Chip (uddelia Pink Micro Chip’ PP26,547) features continuous blooms (rather than waves of blooms), that continue from early summer into fall.
Long panicles of lavender/pink blossoms rise up above the foliage creating a picture-perfect floral display for your yard. Pollinators love Pink Micro Chip’s subtle fragrance, their fluttering wings amongst the blooms an added enchantment to an already magnificent, little shrub.
Your Pink Micro Chip Buddleia is a dwarf Buddleia that has a well-branched habit and mounding nature. Pink Micro Chip never needs deadheading and is very low maintenance. Pruning in early spring will ensure a dense, more floriferous shrub, but isn’t necessary.
It doesn’t produce seeds, so it’s not invasive like some other varieties (and certainly less messy). Pink Micro Chip Buddleia, once established, is a hardy shrub, able to tolerate some cold, heat, and drought. Wildlife love it, but deer pass it by. Plant a few of these for a low-growing, decorative border or place a few near other plantings that are less prolific in their displays. Pink Micro Chip is sure to brighten even the drabbest garden area.
Buzz™ Purple Butterfly Bush
Buzz™ Purple Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Buzz Purple, Buddleia ‘Buzz Purple’ is a Butterfly Bush that combines beauty and wildlife appeal. Plant a few of these for a spectacular floral border, or even just one near a front entrance where you’re sure to enjoy it summer-long display.
It’s hard to imagine a shrub more lovely and enchanting as a Butterfly Bush, and Buzz Purple manages to make owning one even easier. When you plant a Buzz Purple, you not only bring the beauty of a Butterfly Bush into your landscape, but do so without the need for much space.
Buzz Purple Butterfly Bush will provide your home with spikes of purple blooms that are just as impressive as those of full size bushes. However, instead of being up to twelve feet tall, Buzz Purple Butterfly Bush does it all in a four foot package. Long-blooming and strongly-scented, your Buzz Purple will put on a spectacular show all summer long, and call to pollinators from far and wide.
It has an upright, compact nature with arching branches. Deer and rabbits pass it by, but your pollinators will love it, arriving in droves to cover its scented blooms. Buzz Purple is drought tolerant, works great in containers and is generally easy to grow.
Perfecta Trifecta Butterfly Bush
Perfecta Trifecta Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Feeling lucky? This amazing plant delivers three beautiful shades of highly rated, compact butterfly bush varieties. This winning addition will work just beautifully to bring butterflies dancing into your landscape.
Our expert growers have carefully selected the Perfecta Trifecta (Buddleia davidii BUZZ„¢ ‘Sky Blue’, Buddleia davidii BUZZ„¢ ‘Hot Raspberry’, Buddleia davidii BUZZ„¢ ‘Ivory’) collection for maximum visual impact. You’ll enjoy flowers the first season, and the plant will simply explode with gorgeous, multi-colored spires of sky blue, hot raspberry and ivory .
If you want a lush look, this is your plant. Very easy care, the Perfecta Trifecta Butterfly Bush will bloom it’s head off for you all summer long. Because of the parents, this plant stays in its place and won’t get overgrown or shaggy on you.
Butterfly Bush is a butterfly favorite with its fragrant and vibrant blooms. You’ll love the honey-scent, and so will your local butterflies. They’ll especially appreciate this plant near the end of the growing season, as they make their long migration south.
This well-behaved plant delivers an abundance of nectar-rich blooms. This is safe to use as part of a comprehensive Butterfly Garden, along with host plants for caterpillars, such as Swamp Milkweed.
Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush
Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Lo and Behold how lovely this shrub is! The Lo & Behold® Purple Haze Butterfly Bush (Buddleia x ‘Purple Haze Lo and Behold’ PP24,514) erupts with bluish-purple, fragrant flowers from summer into fall!
This dwarf variety comes alive with butterflies and hummingbirds. Its petite size is perfect for gardeners that want a butterfly bush, but don’t want it to take up too much garden real estate. The Lo & Behold® Purple Haze is low-spreading, but its branches reach horizontally outward.
Use this non-invasive for prized groundcover. Its horizontal growth keeps foliage low, making it ideal for areas that need a bit of color and protection. You won’t have to deadhead this low-maintenance beauty, either. Plant your Lo & Behold® Purple Haze in full sun with well-drained soil.
If you have the room, the Purple Haze looks stunning when planted in groups as a border or mass planting. Its rich green leaves will give your garden a verdant feel. They sprout in spring and stick around until late fall.
And these violet blooms are to-die-for. This plant gets bejeweled in purple blooms in summer and they last through fall.
Black Knight Butterfly Bush
Black Knight Butterfly Bush (View Price)
The Black Knight Butterfly Bush, (Buddelia davidii ‘Black Knight’), is more like a prince charming when it comes to butterflies. Butterflies can’t resist the allure and charm of these fragrant and mesmerizing blooms. This plant offers spectacular spikes of flowers that will bring all the butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard. This impressive deciduous beauty will capture your heart and inspire your creativity.
As its name implies, the Black Knight Butterfly Bush is the butterfly whisperer of the flower world. It entices butterflies to stop by for a sip of its sweet and fragrant nectar. This sweet-scented plant brings the biggest gathering of butterflies in the afternoon when its honey-scented nectar sweetens in the sun. The butterflies will need to make room for hummingbirds who enjoy this sweet treat as well.
From the deep, almost black-purple color of muscadine grapes to the vibrant pop of purple, the Black Knight Butterfly Bush produces some of the most dramatic flowers you’ll find. These flowers are sure to add a sense of drama to your summer and into fall when they bloom.
And this beauty is easy to grow! All you need to do is find a sunny spot and plant this perennial shrub. It grows vigorously. It’s also pest, deer, and rabbit resistant. It blooms on new growth, so don’t forget to prune it to the ground in the spring.
Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush
Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush (View Price)
Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii ‘Nanho Purple’, is a deciduous shrub with ornamental features. A few of these would make a spectacular hedge for your landscape. If you have a place where fall flowers are lacking, Nanho would also be a great choice to fill in that spot with some late-season color.
Your Nanho Purple Butterfly Bush will astound you each June when its petite, lavender flowers appear. The delicate blossoms cluster in long spikes of up to six inches long!
The fragrant blooms amid the grey-tinted, green foliage will be a strong lure to pollinators, and just as the name suggests, especially attractive to your butterflies. In fact, sometimes Butterfly Bushes in bloom are so covered with butterflies that the entire shrub seems to vibrate with their excitement!
As if this incredible, floral display wasn’t enough, your Nanho will continue to put on its fascinating show throughout summer and sometimes even up until the first frost.
It has a graceful, arching habit and no significant disease or insect issues. Nanho can be left to grow naturally or pruned as desired. It’s a vigorous grower and generally hardy.
