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Buddleia, also known as the butterfly bush, is a fast-growing perennial adored by pollinators. Many varieties are hardy down to zone 5, but a bit of extra care can help them withstand particularly ...
The butterfly bush, Buddleja davidii, is now listed as a Class C noxious weed by the state. Gardeners may be eyeing the butterfly bushes in their landscape and wondering whether their particular ...
Buddleias have been popular for many years but the notoriety of the wild buddleia that has become a major weed problem has tarnished their reputation.
Known also as 'Hardy butterfly bush,' it is the cold, hardy species of the buddleias, good from zones 5 to 11. In colder northern regions this plant refuses to die back to the ground, like the ...
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.
Butterfly bush blooms on new wood produced this year, so you may finally get some flower heads, but they will be later than usual because of the cool spring and previous stress from the dry fall ...
A. Butterfly bush (Buddleia davidii and cvs.) is a woody shrub that typically dies to the ground over the winter in this climate, but it usually sprouts new growth from roots, ...
In late summer, as kids flock back to school, butterflies flitter and flutter to buddleia, aptly nicknamed butterfly bush.“Butterfly bush is one of those plants that lives up to its publicity ...
I know that other states have declared butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii, to be invasive, but the Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council does not list it as being problematic at this time.