Plant: Pugster White® Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bush · Buddleja davidii 'Pugster White'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dwarf butterfly bush roughly two feet tall and two to three feet wide that carries oversized pure white flower spikes with a honey sweet fragrance. It blooms continuously from early summer through frost with no deadheading, and thicker stems give it better winter survival than similar dwarf varieties, particularly in zone 5. Give it full sun, low water and good drainage. The tidy mounded habit fits perennial beds, mixed plantings, borders, edging, containers and mass plantings, and the flowers draw bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
- 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 roughly two feet tall and two to three feet wide that carries oversized pure white flower spikes with a honey sweet fragrance. It blooms continuously from early summer through frost with no deadheading, and thicker stems give it better winter survival than similar dwarf varieties, particularly in zone 5. Give it full sun, low water and good drainage. The tidy mounded habit fits perennial beds, mixed plantings, borders, edging, containers and mass plantings, and the flowers draw bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
- Flowers
- Oversized pure white flower spikes with a honey sweet fragrance, carried on a dwarf frame.
- 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
