{"id":1071,"date":"2017-06-20T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2017-06-14T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T01:55:09","slug":"less-invasive-butterfly-bush-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2017\/06\/20\/less-invasive-butterfly-bush-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Invasive Butterfly Bush Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buddleia ‘BlueChip’ at J C Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh, NC<\/p><\/div>\n

Butterfly bush (Buddleia<\/em>) is a popular garden shrub in many areas of the U.S. Buddleia invasiveness is a serious issue in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Dept of Agriculture, Plant Division, has approved for sale these buddleia cultivars in the\u00a0state. The approved varieties produce 2% or less viable seed, meeting Oregon’s standards for sterility.<\/p>\n

The approved list includes: ‘Blue Chip’, ‘Asian Moon’, ‘Purple Haze’, ‘Flutterby Grande Blueberry Cobbler’, ‘Flutterby Grande Peach Cobbler’, ‘Flutterby Pink’, ‘Flutterby Petite Snow White’, ”Flutterby Grande Sweet Marmalade’, ‘Flutterby Grande Tangerine Dream’,\u00a0and ‘Flutterby Grande Vanilla’. Add to the list the cultivars ‘Miss Molly’ and ‘Miss Ruby’ as personal non-invasive favorites.<\/p>\n

Butterfly bush should be planted in full sun for sturdy stems and high floral count. Cultivars\u00a0vary in size, some tall ones are placed in the rear bed,\u00a0and dwarf cultivars in the front of the planting border.\u00a0Flowers are sweetly fragrant upclose. Shrubs\u00a0are drought tolerant once established and\u00a0are tolerant of urban pollution.<\/p>\n

New sterile hybrids are hardy to zone 5-9. They\u00a0grow in average well-drained garden soil with pH range between\u00a05.5 to 7.5. Keep plants well mulched in summer and add additional amounts in late fall for winter protection in northern areas.\u00a0Shrubs are\u00a0light constant feeders; choices include slow release fertilizers like Osmocote\u00ae and Nutrikote\u00ae, \u00a0or monthly liquid feeding of\u00a0Miracle-Gro\u2122, Daniels\u2122 or Espoma\u00ae.<\/p>\n

Butterfly bushs require\u00a0little pruning, but large flowering types\u00a0weigh down the branches. Cut\u00a0back plants to the ground\u00a0in early spring as flowers are borne on new\u00a0growth (wood). Pests seem to be problematic when shrub(s) are\u00a0stressed out because of a poor garden site. Spider mite feedings appear to be most severe during\u00a0extremely hot\u00a0dry summers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Butterfly bush (Buddleia) is a popular garden shrub in many areas of the U.S. Buddleia invasiveness is a serious issue in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Dept of Agriculture, Plant Division, has approved for sale these buddleia cultivars in the\u00a0state. The approved varieties produce 2% or less viable seed, meeting Oregon’s standards for sterility. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,398,1218,1319,696,749,299,674,806,665,10,1012,745,720,551,1060,601,729,1210,630,706,7,455,642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9102,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}