(Liste) Purple Buddleia Tree
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Purple buddleia tree. The buddleia tree is a hardy medium to large perennial shrub with long arching woody branches. Removal of butterfly bush is best when it first comes into flower but has not yet produced seeds. The butterfly bush buddleia davidii is a beautiful fast growing deciduous shrub with masses of blossoms long spiked trusses that bloom from summer to autumn. A low spreading charmer of a butterfly bush lo behold purple haze has uniquely horizontal branches that produce an abundance of fragrant dark purple blue flowers. Buddleia 3 in 1 flowering shrub with red white and purple flowers. It strongly resembles the lilac which already blooms in may. The butterfly bush can reach growth heights of up to 500 cm and grow 300 cm onto the sides due to branching.
Showy flowers of butterfly bush grow in long spike shaped clusters in a range of purple to light purple shades with egg shaped to lance shaped leaves that grow to 25 cm long. Buddleia may be attacked by capsid bug caterpillars and glasshouse red spider mite. Also historically given as buddlea commonly known as the butterfly bush is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemic to asia africa and the americas. Known as the butterfly bush buddleja davidii bears conical nectar rich flowers which attract butterflies and bees in late summer. Its flowers come in many colors though butterflies seem to prefer the lavender pink mauve of the species to the white and dark purple cultivars. Grow with the silvery foliage of buddleia mingles well with other sun loving silver plants and these could include the pale lemon anthemis susanna mitchell the dark purple lavender imperial gem and nepeta six hills giant. Butterfly bush buddleja is a thankful summer bloomer which grows as a shrub or half shrub rarely as a tree or vine.
Buddleja or buddleia ˈ b ʌ d l i ə. Both emit an irresistible scent. The flowers radiate outward and downward like a pinwheel and are continuous from mid summer to frost. It has lance shaped leaves which are a deep green colour. It produces flowers on cone shaped heads usually in august. Flowers come in a variety of colours including purple blue pink and white. New national plant network 2 5 qt.