Butterfly Candy™ Lil' Raspberry™ Butterfly Bush

Add a juicy treat to your landscape with the all-new Butterfly Candy™ Lil' Raspberry™ Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii 'BotEx 006')! The raspberry-pink panicles and their sweet scent are held aloft in upright, fluffy panicles! This bright pink-flowering Buddleia is a space-saving fruity delight that acts like a beacon for every butterfly, bee, and hummingbird in your neighborhood to show up in your landscape! The new Butterfly Candy™ line of Buddleia is wonderfully compact and stays just 2-3 feet in height and width, but is packed full of lovely lighter sage to gray-green foliage. Every one of the many branches ends in a vertically pointed cluster of tiny, scented blooms, jam-packed into tight clusters! Lil' Raspberry™ is hardy throughout chilly USDA growing zones 5 to warm zone 10! The floriferous fruity blooms keep returning for your pollinators and cut flower arrangements so long as you keep them deadheaded. Acting as woody perennials in cooler climates, and deciduous shrubs in warmer ones, Butterfly Bushes usually are slow to start in colder zones, but grow fast once temps are just right! They can start sooner in warmer zones where Lil' Raspberry™ blooms in late spring, through summer, and continue into fall! Planting and Application: Butterfly Candy™ Butterfly Bushes are must-have fruity desserts for your Pollinator Garden! Packed with vital nectar for all your winged visitors and beneficial pollinators, the flowers also are a treat for you as well! They look lovely in Cutting Gardens and smell as sweet as they look! Turn any Perennial border, mixed-shrub hedgerow, cottage garden, Rock garden, or perennial border into a pollinator garden with ease! Plant one by a hummingbird feeder, add a birdbath, and a garden bench, and enjoy front-row seats to the show! Great gifts and Kid-friendly, everyone will enjoy watching as Lil' Raspberry™ attracts tons of wildlife! Include a pair of garden gloves, a book on butterfly identification, and a pair of binoculars or a camera to go with your thoughtful, easy-care gift! Wonderful accents in any part of the sunny landscape, the raspberry pink spires seem to add a pop of color to all garden styles and landscapes of all sizes! Small and compact enough for Container gardeners and porch planters and dressing up a sunny front porch! They are also easy-care enough to create en masse drifts of vibrant all-growing season color! Fill your landscape with these hardy, versatile, blooms and butterflies! Fluffy & Full Panicles in Raspberry Pink! Lovely Scented - Packed with Tiny Flowers Nectar-Rich - Attracts Bees, Butterflies & Hummingbirds! Gray-Green Foliage & Compact Dense Branching Pollinator Gardens, Cut Flower Gardens & Landscape Accents Containers, En Masse, Beds & Borders #ProPlantTips For Care Buddleia Butterfly Bushes bloom best and have the strongest stems in full sun, so provide at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. Plant in almost any kind of well-drained, enriched soil with a 3-4 inch layer of mulch as topdressing. Then in the early spring before you see new growth, prune back your entire bush. This plant is like a woody perennial in colder zones it will die back, and should cut stems down in late winter or early spring before it starts to grow and all fresh new growth will develop from the roots. Deadhead to keep new blooms returning all growing season. Butterfly Bushes are rarely damaged by deer unless truly desperate! Full Sun For The Most Blooms Moderate to Lower, Yet Consistent Soil Moisture Enriched, Very Well-Drained Soil & Appreciates Mulched Beds Deadhead Often For Rebloom Prune Back in Early Spring Deer Seldom Bother It All-new Butterfly Candy™ Lil' Raspberry™ Butterfly Bushes will bring fruity and fun desserts to your pollinator gardens! Hurry and order all the new Butterfly Candy™ line of Buddleia from NatureHills.com today!