Butterfly Towers White Butterfly Bush is a fast-growing deciduous shrub with a vertical pyramidal habit and narrow greyish blue green foliage. Its long panicles of fragrant white flowers can be as long as 12 inches, and bloom all summer into fall, attracting bees and butterflies. Best performance in sunny well-drained areas. Good drought tolerance.
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Type:
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Shrub
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Height:
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4’ - 5’
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Spread:
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2’ - 3’
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Spacing:
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2’
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USDA Hardiness Zone:
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5 - 9
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Culture:
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Full Sun
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Bloom Color:
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White
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Season of Interest:
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Summer, Fall
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MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance plant. Tolerant of most soils, except wet ones.
LANDSCAPE USES: Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Wildlife Gardens, Rock Gardens, Foundation Plantings, Hedges, and Containers.
COMPANION PLANTS: Verbena, Russian Sage, Daylily
IMAGES: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, Vanessa atalanta sobre Buddleja davidii.005 - Wick (Bristol), CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Curious Curiouser, Bumblebee and bee on buddleia
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
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