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With a name like butterfly bush, you might expect a plant to be attractive to butterflies. In fact, it's more than attractive; it's a magnet for all the butterflies who pass through your garden seeking nectar. Many butterfly gardeners plan their garden around Buddleia (pronounced BUD-lee-ah), a genus that includes over 100 species and cultivars. Also called summer lilac, the medium- to large-sized shrubs can anchor a perennial bed or form a hedge.

Our butterfly bushes are shipped in 3 1/2" containers. They are well rooted, trimmed once or twice, and most will bloom this summer! By next July, they should be 3 to 4 feet high and attract butterflies (and hummingbirds) like a magnet.

Butterfly bushes are hardy in zones 5 - 9. If you live in a colder zone, the tops in your butterfly bushes will likely die back over the winter. Even so, they will come back the next growing season bigger and better then before. Butterfly bushes prefer full sun (they must receive eight or more hours of sun a day to thrive). We will be adding other plant varieties from time to time that attract and keep butterflies coming back to your area. The Purple Coneflower that we planted in our gardens attracted the Monarch Butterfly even before I had them in the ground. We hope you enjoy our selections.

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Achillea Moonshine
Achillea Moonshine is still one of the most popular garden plants today, Achillea Moonshine is valuable in the landscape because it combines well with almost everything.
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Achillea Paprika
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium Paprika is renowned for its large clusters of bright red flowers. Each individual flower in the cluster of the Achillea Paprika also has a distinctive yellow eye.
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Achillea Summer Berries
Achillea Summer Berries - The Summer Berries is a first year flowering and easy to grow perennial favorite, a sumptuous mix of fruity colors. (salmon-apricot/yellow, cherry-red/apricot, white-pink/cream, two-tone pink, and many more.
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Achillea Terra Cotta
Achillea Terra Cotta, an Ernst Pagel introduction, and a clumping perennial reaching a mature height of thirty inches, upright, & spreading to near two feet before it needs to be divided.
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Anemone Whirlwind
Anemone Whirlwind blooms from late summer to fall; there is no flower like it in the border. Anemone Whirlwind displays pure white, semi-double flowers measuring 4 inches across top very tall stems beginning in late summer.
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Armeria Dusseldorf Pride
Armeria Dusseldorf Pride - Dwarf Sea Thrift - Neat, evergreen tufts of grass-like foliage with globular bright pink flowers on 4 - 8 inch stems. Armeria Dusseldorf Pride is excellent for the front of a border. Armeria Dusseldorf Pride does well...
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Aster English Country
Aster English Country is counted among the great garden plants, because many of them hold off blooming until late summer and fall when most garden plants are spent. Aster English Country grows and flowers best in full sun and evenly moist soil.
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Black Eyed Susan
Black Eyed Susan, Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' is one of the most requested mid summer to fall bloomers. Black Eyed Susans are great for mass plantings and provide wonderful contrasting colors when paired with ornamental grasses, Shasta daisies...
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Buddleia Bi-Color
Buddleia Bi-Color- butterfly bush, You have got to get this one!!! The very first Butterfly bush to sport two different colors on the same bloomstalk; rich lavender combined with butterscotch yellow.
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Buddleia Black Knight
Buddleia Black Knight: Our Buddleia Black Knight butterfly bushes are shipped in 2-1/4" to 2-1/2" pots. Buddleia Black Knight butterfly bushes are well rooted, trimmed once or twice, and most will bloom this summer!
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Buddleia Honeycomb
Buddleia x_weyeriana 'Honeycomb' (Yellow Butterfly Bush) This plant is native to western Central China. The plant reaches 12 feet in height with gray-green foliage and is deciduous or semi-evergreen in warmer climates.
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Buddleia Nanho Blue
Buddleia Nanho Blue butterfly bush is vigorous, long lasting cut flower. Commonly known as the Buddleia Nanho Blue butterfly bush. Tiny individual flowers are produced in profusion in long, dense trusses.
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Buddleia Pink Delight
Buddleia Pink Delight davidii butterfly bush is a compact growing perennial shrub that will reach 5' tall and 6' wide. Buddleia Pink Delight has silvery green foliage that adds interest. Buddleia Pink Delight has beautiful deep pink flowers that at
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Buddleia Royal Red
Buddleia Royal Red Buddleia davidii butterfly bush: This 1928 hybrid butterfly bush from Good and Reese Nursery in Ohio is still one of the most sought-after of the Buddleia butterfly bushes.
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Buddleia White Profusion
Buddleia White Profusion is a steady reliable bloomer of pure white flowers with a yellow eye. Buddleia White Profusion is commonly known as the Butterfly Bush.
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Butterfly House
Butterfly House is a way to introduce butterfly watching and gathering to the children. Let them hang a Butterfly House in the garden and then check it weekly to see what transpires.
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Dianthus Zing Rose
Dianthus Zing Rose, Dianthus deltoids, covers itself during June and July with rose red flowers. This Dianthus variety grows well in humid areas and once established requires little moisture making it an excellent plant for Xeric gardens.
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Gaillardia Arizona Sun
Gaillardia Arizona Sun produces up to 3-inch flowers that are variations of dark to lighter mahogany red with bright yellow edges. Arizona Sun Gaillardia requires little care to produce blooms from summer on into fall. Deadhead spent blooms.
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Gaillardia Burgundy
Gaillardia Burgundy (Blanket Flower) is one of the more striking Gaillardias producing burgundy wine red blooms that are almost 3 inches across.
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Grass Pennisetum.Hameln
Hameln Grass is our personal favorite. Hameln Grass' compact growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most popular warm season Pennisetum cultivars. Hameln Grass' are usually grown for their flower clusters (plumes) that appear i
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Hidcote Blue Lavender
Lavender Hidcote Blue, or Lavender angustifolia, Hidcote Blue is a free flowering dwarf variety that produces deep purple flower spikes in late spring and summer. Lavender Hidcote Blue is great for a dwarf hedge, edging, or for massing.
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Hydrangea Cityline Mars
Hydrangea Cityline ™ Mars is another Color Choice Plant. The Hydrangea macrophylla 'Vienna Ramars' PPAF makes a welcome addition to any garden or landscape with its attractive pink and white variegated blossoms. The Cityline ™ Mars Hydrangea grows...
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Hydrangea Limelight
Hydrangea Limelight, Hydrangea paniculata Limelight, is an exciting new hardy Hydrangea from Holland. Hydrangea Limelight has unique bright green blooms in mid-summer (late July) that holds it's bright and refreshing color right into autumn
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Karley Rose Grass
Karley Rose Grass, Pennisetum orientale, has dark green foliage topped with long-blooming (June till frost) rose lavender plumes. I knew Karley Rose Grass was another of a long list of great plants that I had to add to the garden.
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Lavender Munstead
Lavender Munstead is a many-branched, somewhat woody, perennial plant growing to 15 inches tall. The narrow leaves of the Lavender Munstead are about 2 inches long and have a pleasing gray-green color. Lavender Munstead has small heavily fragrant lav
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Lilium Butter Pixie
Lilium Butter Pixie is a dwarf Asiatic lily. The Butter Pixie lily produces large upturned bright yellow blossoms that are trumpet or star shaped. Plant in multiples or mass plantings for a greater effect. The Pixie series is the perfect size for..
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Lilium Orange Pixie
Lilium Orange Pixie is a dwarf Asiatic lily. The Orange Pixie lily features large upturned bright orange blooms. The Orange Pixie is perfect for accents, borders, rock gardens, containers and edging projects.
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Lilium Painted Pixie
Lilium Painted Pixie is a dwarf Asiatic lily. The Painted Pixie lily features large upturned deep yellow blossoms with red or rust colored dots at the base of each petal. Painted Pixie Lilium matures between 12 and 18 inches tall with a spread of...
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Miscanthus Adagio Grass
Miscanthus Adagio Grass is an early flowering beauty with reddish/white pendulous plumes that move in the slightest breeze. Miscanthus Adagio Grass is the durable addition for the summer or winter garden.
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Miscanthus Gracillimus Grass
Miscanthus Gracillimus Grass is perhaps the oldest cultivar of miscanthus sinensis and remains very popular to this day.
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Miscanthus Purpurascens Grass
Miscanthus Purpurascens Grass (CLOSEOUT)is a beautiful ornamental grass that will add interesting seasonal color changes in your landscape. Imagine Miscanthus Purpurascens Grass beginning with bright green foliage that turns to a reddish.....
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Perennial Yarrow Collection
Perennial yarrow Collection, easy growing consists of Achillea Moonshine, Achillea Summer Berries, and Achillea Paprika plants. This collection is a sampling of are very best selling yarrows.
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Pineapple Sage
Sage Pineapple Salvia elegans - The sage with the fabulous pineapple scent, and stunning red flowers too! The bright green leaves make a great tea. Some of our customers say it is great with chicken as well. And it attracts hummingbirds.
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