{"id":157,"date":"2010-03-21T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/03\/21\/lo-and-behold-blue-chip-buddleia-is-a-winner\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:19:31","slug":"lo-and-behold-blue-chip-buddleia-is-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/03\/21\/lo-and-behold-blue-chip-buddleia-is-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lo and Behold &#8216;Blue Chip&#8217; Buddleia Is Late Summer Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S6bG4csGWuI\/AAAAAAAAALo\/_W8OfFbQQDQ\/s1600-h\/Buddleia+%27BlueChip%27+(2).JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451263072054696674\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 214px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S6bG4csGWuI\/AAAAAAAAALo\/_W8OfFbQQDQ\/s320\/Buddleia+%27BlueChip%27+(2).JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>photo taken at JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC\u00a0in June 2009<\/p>\n<div>Lo &amp; Behold\u00ae \u2018Blue Chip\u2019 is a very dwarf butterfly bush (buddleia) for the summer garden. Its compact 3 x 4 foot height and width is an excellent choice\u00a0planted 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&#8217;s coat (alternanthera).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lo &amp; Behold\u00ae \u2018Blue Chip\u2019 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\u00a0remains blemish-free.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8216;Blue Chip&#8217; is non-invasive. It&#8217;s self-cleaning and will bloom from mid-summer to frost without deadheading. At the start of every spring, prune &#8216;Blue Chip&#8217; 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.<\/div>\n<div>\u2018Blue Chip\u2019 blooms\u00a0from mid-August to late October in my Southern Appalachian garden (zone 6). Buddleias\u00a0are deer resistant and drought tolerant.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo taken at JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC\u00a0in June 2009 Lo &amp; Behold\u00ae \u2018Blue Chip\u2019 is a very dwarf butterfly bush (buddleia) for the summer garden. Its compact 3 x 4 foot height and width is an excellent choice\u00a0planted in a garden bed or in a container on a sunny patio deck or patio. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,707,696,749,299,710,144,674,645,806,665,1012,551,843,601,630,706,646,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}