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Plant: Pugster Pinker® Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bush · Buddleja davidii 'Pugster Pinker'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dwarf butterfly bush about two feet tall and two to two and a half feet wide that carries full sized rich pink flower spikes with bright orange centers. It blooms continuously from early summer through frost, and thick sturdy stems give it better winter survival than other dwarf butterfly bushes. Plant it in full sun with low water and good drainage. The neat mounded habit suits borders, edging, mass plantings, containers and small focal points, and the flowers draw bees and butterflies.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 2 ft tall and 2.5 ft wide
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A dwarf butterfly bush about two feet tall and two to two and a half feet wide that carries full sized rich pink flower spikes with bright orange centers. It blooms continuously from early summer through frost, and thick sturdy stems give it better winter survival than other dwarf butterfly bushes. Plant it in full sun with low water and good drainage. The neat mounded habit suits borders, edging, mass plantings, containers and small focal points, and the flowers draw bees and butterflies.
- Flowers
- Rich pink full sized flower spikes with bright orange centers 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. In zones 5 and colder avoid fall pruning.
- Native range
- Tibet to Central and South China
