Nano Blue Butterfly Bush
But it must have a touch of blue in it because it goes well with pinks like our magic carrousel miniature pink roses.
Nano blue butterfly bush. This plant is smaller with narrower leaves. Flowers come in a variety of colours including purple blue pink and white. Plants are easy to grow and thrive in almost any situation. Butterfly bush is a shrub like plant that looks sort of like a compact lilac grows quickly and blooms in mid summer.
This is a large shrub that grows in rocky places. It looks great on its own but try it paired with white profusion and pink delight for a real garden treat. Butterflies just cant resist the flowers and flock to the plants when they re in bloom. But the name tells you all about it.
Nanho blue is a butterfly bush cultivar which features mauve blue flowers. Really a shrub plants are best treated like perennials and pruned back hard each spring to maintain a compact bushy habit. The nanho blue butterfly bush was bred from a chinese butterfly bush called buddleja davidii. Dwarf blue butterfly bush is not really blue either.
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. Mongo the fragrant arching clusters of butterfly bush are irresistible to hummingbirds and butterflies. Dwarf blue butterfly bush is hardy to zone 5 tolerant of blazing hot sun and able to grow in heavy soil with adequate drainage. Nanho blue is hands down one of the most striking of all of the butterfly bushes.
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. In the north west of china there is a province called kansu and there a unique variety of buddleja grows called variety nanhoensis. This isn t the typical purple lavender or rose buddleia this is a gentian blue that looks brilliant all season long. This compact selection has wands of violet blue flowers over a mound of silvery green leaves.