Butterfly Bush Maryland

Currently the maryland department of natural resources has placed chinese butterfly bush buddleja davidii on our do not plant list which bans planting this species on dnr lands and planting this species for any dnr funded projects. If you would like your garden to become a butterfly nursery then you may want to include those plants that are used by caterpillars.

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Butterfly bush maryland

An invasive species in maryland. Butterfly bush also called summer lilac is a deciduous shrub bearing wands of purple pink or white flowers at the branch tips from summer to fall. Armitage thought that the pugster butterfly bush varieties were some of the best so far of the compact dwarf butterfly bushes being compact in growth and very cold hardy.

Please choose a rating. Butterflies in maryland have evolved to make the most use of native plants. Butterfly bush though beautiful in bloom is now a classified invasive here in washington state it s illegal to sell or transplant and i see my neighbors battle horribly with it but i think it would make a nice hedgerow plant for large property border lines and young shoots can be used in wattle fence and appalachian garden furniture.

Butterfly bush buddleja davidii photo. Butterfly bush is most invasive in dry open ground and will colonize waste areas with well drained soil. In fact there s even a multi colored type buddleia x weyeriana bicolor.

Pugster periwinkle grows only 2 feet tall and 2 3 feet wide with very sturdy stems capable of holding the huge flower heads that that the pugster butterfly bushes. This species originally from asia readily takes over space. And thanks to the magic of cultivar developers the flowers now come in a number of colors including pink and blue.

Exude a fragrance much like lilacs. Its flowers come in many colors though butterflies seem to prefer the lavender pink mauve of the species to the white and dark purple cultivars. They usually bloom from mid july through frost.

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