While it is true that butterfly bush can grow in poor soil, adding some high-quality potting soil to the container will give your shrub the best start. Use something like this organic potting soil ...

Grow butterfly southern bush honeysuckle as an addition to the garden border, en masse or even as a hedge. When grown as a hedge, it doesn't need front border plants, as it has leaves and branches ...

Today is Q&A day. Q: I have a butterfly bush that has gone berserk. It is over 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and is too big for my small backyard. But I love it. Can I keep trimming it back or ...

Butterfly bush blooms on new wood produced this year, so you may finally get some flower heads, but they will be later than usual because of the cool spring and previous stress from the dry fall ...

As late-blooming shrubs and perennials are finally beginning to green up, many homeowners are just now seeing the full effects of our fiercely cold and long winter. Hydrangea and butterfly bush ...

A: Butterfly bush responds very well to yearly pruning in the winter. Blooms on this shrub are made at the tips of new growth. Severe pruning, which forces lots of new growth to emerge, results in ...

The butterfly bush, Buddleja davidii, is now listed as a Class C noxious weed by the state. Gardeners may be eyeing the butterfly bushes in their landscape and wondering whether their particular ...

Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii and hybrids): This is just one example of a popular non-native plant in many of our yards that is now considered invasive to our region.

CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. — The Butterfly Bush is an attractive flowering shrub that comes in many colors, most commonly purple in Northeast Pa. In some areas it becomes evasive, but here in ...

The blue butterfly bush is an open, sprawling evergreen shrub that can grow to 10 feet tall and wide. With careful pruning it can be kept much smaller. Blue flowers bloom summer through fall ...

Q. I have a few large butterfly bushes in my garden and they do look fantastic when in flower, but they can all get a bit messy afterward. Is it better to go out and deadhead to keep it neat, or ...