27+ Buddleia Nanho
Nanho blue butterfly bush.
Buddleia nanho. Plant it near the center of the pot surrounded by smaller plants and those that spill over the edges. 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. To encourage later flowering which benefits garden butterflies such as the small tortoiseshell cut plants back to the base in may. Butterfly bush is the common name for the buddleia species of flowering shrub and it is the perfect plant to compliment the annual and perennial flowers in your butterfly garden. Nanho blue is a butterfly bush cultivar which features mauve blue flowers. Buddleja davidii nanho blue has beautiful purple red flowers. Left unpruned buddleja davidii nanho blue can become leggy so prune hard back every year.
Also called summer lilacs butterfly bushes are hardy to zone 5 and remain. But the name tells you all about it. Genus buddleja can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs occasionally trees or scrambling climbers with simple leaves and panicles of small tubular fragrant flowers details nanho blue is a deciduous shrub with neat narrowly lance shaped leaves and slender cylindrical panicles of light blue flowers in summer and autumn. Nanho purple nanho purple is a vigorous compact semi evergreen shrub with arching branches bearing lance shaped grey green leaves and dense cylindrical panicles of fragrant purple flowers in from summer into autumn. P butterfly bush is a shrub like plant that looks sort of like a compact lilac grows quickly and blooms in mid summer. New cultivars are available in a variety of colors with blooms ranging from deep purple and bright fuchsia to flowers of creamy yellow and white. In cooler zones butterfly bushes die back to the ground each year sending up a dense group of new shoots in late spring that quickly develop into a 4 to 6 feet shrub.
Nanho blue butterfly bush makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape but it is also well suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. Note that when grown. 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. Commonly known as buddleia nanho blue butterfly bushes attract butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden with their unusual dark blue to purple blooms. It is a deciduous shrub with an arching spreading habit which typically grows to 5 10 tall if not cut back in late winter and 3 5 tall if cut back. Butterflies just cant resist. Many gardeners plant several butterfly bushes together so they grow into a shrub like clump with blooms in all the colors planted say purple pink and white or perhaps pink blue and white.
Its up to you.