Empire Blue Butterfly Bush
Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Empire blue butterfly bush. Buddleja or buddleia ˈbʌdliə. Plant in full sun. Meet pugster blue it s a whole new look for butterfly bush. Buddleja davidii empire blue was one of the first blue varieties commercially available and remains a worthy specimen shrub for sunny borders despite the many new introductions of blue buddlejas. This buddleja bears purple blue flowers. Butterfly bush empire blue a large flowering shrub with rich violet blue flowers with an orange eye. The flowers are excellent for cutting.
Empire blue butterfly bush feature pale blue flowers with bright orange centers and are sure to attract people as well. It has grayish green foliage throughout the season. This compact plant reaches just 2 6 m tall and wide but has the large full flowers normally seen on a much larger plant. Attractive to butterflies and bees. Buddleja davidii empire blue good shrub for late summer colour. Empire blue butterfly bush is an open multi stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Genus buddleja can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs occasionally trees or scrambling climbers with simple leaves and panicles of small tubular fragrant flowers details empire blue is a large deciduous shrub with arching branches and lance shaped leaves white beneath.
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. Empire blue butterfly bush features showy panicles of fragrant violet flowers with orange eyes at the ends of the branches from mid summer to mid fall. Buddleja davidii empire blue butterfly bush. Buddleja davidii empire blue butterfly bush empire blue will reach a height of 4m and a spread of 4m after 5 10 years.