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Butterfly Bush - White Bouquet
It's generally pest-free. This bush flowers summer and fall and is easy to grow. This plant blooms on new growth and should be pruned back to the ground in spring. Plant it near a path or patio and the shrub will provide a delightful fragrance for you, too. 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 that pass through your garden seeking nectar. Butterflies and bees will flock to the honey-scented blossoms, whose dilute nectar is sweetest in midday sun. The Butterfly Bush 'White Bouquet', Buddleia 'White Bouquet', has fragrant, white flower panicles 8-12" long form on this somewhat compact growing butterfly bush. This deciduous bush blooms mid-summer to early fall. It is a vigorous growing shrub that boasts white flowers from mid-summer and is a butterfly magnet. ... more info
Dogwood - Coral Red To keep the size of the plant in check and to encourage the most colorful bark, remove a third of the stems back to ground level each spring. Tolerant of a wide range of soils, it produces the brightest winter bark when planted in full sun. It has been given an Award of Garden Merit (AM), which is for plants of outstanding excellence. The Coral Red Dogwood, Cornus alba 'Sibirica', has stunning bright red bark which adds color to the winter garden. |
