Purple Buddleia Tree

It produces flowers on cone shaped heads usually in august.

Purple buddleia tree. It strongly resembles the lilac which already blooms in may. Please choose a rating. Flowers come in a variety of colours including purple blue pink and white. These flowers smell like honey and contain a lot of nectar which attracts 22 different species of butterfly.

Removal of butterfly bush is best when it first comes into flower but has not yet produced seeds. The butterfly bush buddleia davidii is a beautiful fast growing deciduous shrub with masses of blossoms long spiked trusses that bloom from summer to autumn. The buddleia tree is a hardy medium to large perennial shrub with long arching woody branches. The flowers radiate outward and downward like a pinwheel and are continuous from mid summer to frost.

In forests it competes with douglas fir tree seedlings. Known as the butterfly bush buddleja davidii bears conical nectar rich flowers which attract butterflies and bees in late summer. Butterfly bush buddleja is a thankful summer bloomer which grows as a shrub or half shrub rarely as a tree or vine. Also historically given as buddlea commonly known as the butterfly bush is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemic to asia africa and the americas.

New national plant network 2 5 qt. A low spreading charmer of a butterfly bush lo behold purple haze has uniquely horizontal branches that produce an abundance of fragrant dark purple blue flowers. 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. Buddleia 3 in 1 flowering shrub with red white and purple flowers.

Grow with the silvery foliage of buddleia mingles well with other sun loving silver plants and these could include the pale lemon anthemis susanna mitchell the dark purple lavender imperial gem and nepeta six hills giant. It has lance shaped leaves which are a deep green colour. Plants are easy to grow and thrive in almost any situation but will attract more butterflies and bees if grown in full sun. Both emit an irresistible scent.

Showy flowers of butterfly bush grow in long spike shaped clusters in a range of purple to light purple shades with egg shaped to lance shaped leaves that grow to 25 cm long.