Butterfly Bush Blue Heaven

Buddleja flutterby petite blue heaven butterfly bush is a miniature deciduous shrub with gracefully arching branches studded with lance shaped fuzzy gray green leaves and sweetly scented panicles of violet blue flowers. Petite blue heaven butterfly bush produces full size 4 to 6 spikes of lavender blue flowers on bushes one third the size of their taller growing cousins.

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Butterfly bush blue heaven

The flowers are more lavender than they are blue in our gardens. We recommend planting this versatile perennial in any border or small space garden. Well that s because they just planted a blue heaven butterfly bush in their garden.

A hybrid of b. Blue flowers radiate against ethereal silver foliage a glimpse of heaven on earth. As with all butterfly bush blue heaven is drought tolerant when established and deer turn their nose up to it.

This is a much improved form of the older types of butterfly bush which although attractive have many faults. Like all butterfly bushes blue heaven attracts pollinators to the garden and makes for spectacular cut bouquets. This divine buddleia blooms from summer to frost while retaining a perfectly petite growth habit.

This new shrub stays small and compact around 2 feet tall and the same size across. Alternifolia from a breeding program focused on developing compact sterile cultivars with attractive bloom color flutterby petite blue heaven is also noteworthy for its upright and openly spreading habit. For an especially dramatic display plant several varieties together for a clump of blue blooms all season long.

The blue heaven butterfly bush is a beautiful small shrub loved by both gardeners butterflies and children too.

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