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Plant: Pugster Blue® Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bush · Buddleja davidii 'Pugster Blue'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dwarf butterfly bush around two feet tall and two to three feet wide bearing the large full flower spikes normally seen on a much bigger plant, in true blue with a yellow orange center eye. It blooms non stop from early summer through frost, and thick sturdy stems give it vastly improved winter survival for a dwarf butterfly bush. Give it full sun, low water and good drainage. The mounded habit works in borders, edging, mass plantings, containers and as a small focal point, and the flowers bring in bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. It was named the 2021 Flowering Shrub of the Year.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 2 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A dwarf butterfly bush around two feet tall and two to three feet wide bearing the large full flower spikes normally seen on a much bigger plant, in true blue with a yellow orange center eye. It blooms non stop from early summer through frost, and thick sturdy stems give it vastly improved winter survival for a dwarf butterfly bush. Give it full sun, low water and good drainage. The mounded habit works in borders, edging, mass plantings, containers and as a small focal point, and the flowers bring in bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. It was named the 2021 Flowering Shrub of the Year.
- Flowers
- True blue flower spikes with a yellow orange center eye, full sized on a dwarf plant.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite, ovate to lanceolate leaves that are grayish green to dark green above with soft white hairs beneath (species description).
- Fruit
- Small capsule that opens at the tip (species description).
- Bark & stems
- Green to brown stems that become woody with age.
- Pruning
- Blooms on new wood and needs no deadheading. In zones 5 and colder avoid fall pruning.
- Native range
- Tibet to Central and South China
