Butterflies fancy them, and so do gardeners looking for desert-hardy substitutes for fragrant lilacs. While this plant delivers in the lilac look-alike department, I’m sorry to say that its delicate ...

BUZZ -- As the name suggests, Butterfly bushes such as this Buzz Velvet Buddleja attract butterflies all summer long. (Photo by MSU Extension Service/Gary Bachman) By . Special to The Mississippi ...

Butterfly southern bush honeysuckle (Diervilla sessilifolia 'Butterfly') is a nice shrub for the central Ohio landscape. This summer-flowering shrub grows as a mound with horizontal arching red ...

iSTOCK InternationalButterfly bush The butterfly bush has all of the attributes of a dream plant. It is easy to grow, produces an abundance of fragrant blooms that bring in hordes of butterflies ...

Most butterfly bushes thrive in USDA hardiness zones 5 to 9 (check your zone here).They can max out at 10 to 12 feet tall and wide, though dwarf types reach only a few feet tall, making them ideal ...

In late summer, as kids flock back to school, butterflies flitter and flutter to buddleia, aptly nicknamed butterfly bush.“Butterfly bush is one of those plants that lives up to its publicity ...

A Monarch butterfly perches on a royal red butterfly bush at the Greenburgh Nature Center. (June 27, 2012). Credit: Newsday / Leslie Barbaro ...

Are there butterfly bushes that are reliably noninvasive, in addition to the Lo and Behold types that are being marketed as sterile? I have seen Miss Ruby, Miss Molly and the Flutterby series liste… ...