Garden

[Puzzle Piece]

My Butterfly bushes have give me a very nice show of flowers and butterflies.  They are also drought resistant.  I get the compliments from the nice neighbors and those who walk by the house.  The envious people just walk past and ignore the beauty. 

I am pleased with this Q purchase.  

[spumoni99]

I had one years ago in my backyard, it took over the whole part of the yard I ended up having to dig it up, it was pretty before it took over though.

[ahoymate]

Butterfly bushes have a beautiful scent and come in shades of purple as well as pink, red-violet,white. A nice bush to have.

[moonandthestars]

butterfly bushes are great - I'm a big fan.  There are different varieties too - some are very invasive some are not particularly so.  There are compact ones, really large ones, and various colors.  I think they're a great look and easy maintenance.  They do have a beautiful scent.

[Desertdi]

[Lilysmom1]

@Puzzle Piece , I am in zone 5 (East Coast, Canada).  I had a couple about ten years ago.  They are borderline in our zone and mine didn't survive the winter so lesson learned.  You had to have a micro climate for them to work here.  With climate change, that may not be the case any more.  

My neighbour had one and it was,covered in masses of butterflies.  Lately, very few monarchs or any butterflies for that matter.

[HLP]

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@Puzzle Piece wrote:

My Butterfly bushes have give me a very nice show of flowers and butterflies.  They are also drought resistant.  I get the compliments from the nice neighbors and those who walk by the house.  The envious people just walk past and ignore the beauty. 

I am pleased with this Q purchase.  

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I have them, for years. They are best when you clip off dead flowers, also in early Spring we cut them off about 6 inches off ground. Hummingbirds akso like them. In the wild here they bloom with orange flowers. 

[CJC]

I have two Miss Violet butterfly bushes here in OH planted last spring. They are only 2 feet tall, but they'll be taller next year. Lots of butterfly visitors all summer. We lived in Deep South for 20 years before moving back north, and butterfly bushes do not do well at all in Florida's intense heat so I'm happy to see them flourishing here. Enjoy yours!  I miss my year around gardening hobby.....don't handle winter weather very well. 

[gardenman]

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@CJC wrote:

I have two Miss Violet butterfly bushes here in OH planted last spring. They are only 2 feet tall, but they'll be taller next year. Lots of butterfly visitors all summer. We lived in Deep South for 20 years before moving back north, and butterfly bushes do not do well at all in Florida's intense heat so I'm happy to see them flourishing here. Enjoy yours!  I miss my year around gardening hobby.....don't handle winter weather very well. 

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And that's why I grow stuff under my plant lights. I've got sixty-plus African Violet seedlings under my lights now. By January/February they should start flowering. Sitting by the plant lights in the gloom of winter helps brighten my spirits. They make winter more tolerable. I could never live north of the Arctic Circle where it stays dark for almost six months. I would go insane.

[ValuSkr]

They are nice plants but have to be pruned so they don't become a gangly mess. My neighbor in a townhome community had one in the latter category. It took over his whole back yard.  He didn't care; he rarely stepped foot back there.