Lo & Behold® ‘Blue Chip’ is a very dwarf butterfly bush (buddleia) for the summer garden. Its compact 3 x 4 foot height and width is an excellent choice planted in a garden bed or in a container on a sunny patio deck or patio. In a large container Blue Chip can stand alone or add a mix of low trailing bedding plants such as petunisa, scaevolas, sweet potato vines, dichondras, or Joseph’s coat (alternanthera).

Lo & Behold® ‘Blue Chip’ maintains its clean growing habit all season long. Gardeners with limited space can attract butterflies and hummingbirds to their garden with this colorful buddleia. It produces loads of fragrant blue flowers which bloom continuously. It thrives in the summer heat and humidity and the foliage remains blemish-free.

‘Blue Chip’ is non-invasive. It’s self-cleaning and will bloom from mid-summer to frost without deadheading. At the start of every spring, prune ‘Blue Chip’ back to 6 inches from the ground, similar to the larger growing buddleias. Within a month new growth will emerge both below and above the soil line. I feed each plant with granular 10-10-10 fertilizer after pruning and add 2-3 inches of mulch. Little additional care is needed through the year.

‘Blue Chip’ blooms from mid-August to late October in my Southern Appalachian garden (zone 6). Buddleias are deer resistant and drought tolerant.