Georgia Parkinson Hill is a horticulturist, garden designer, and owner of the native landscape design firm Beautyberry Gardens in Atlanta, Georgia. Why Are Butterfly Bushes Bad? In addition to ...

If you're an avid gardener or a butterfly enthusiast, then you've probably stumbled across a butterfly bush once or twice. Perhaps you even have planted one to attract more butterflies to a garden ...

How to grow butterfly bush in pots For long-lasting color, butterfly bush, in my experience, is hard to beat.

This was a leap year for several of my Luminary tall garden phlox in more ways than one, as I’ll explain shortly. For those ...

Butterflies aren’t just beautiful — they’re out there working hard, pollinating as they flit from flower to flower. In fact, butterflies are the second-largest group of pollinators, after ...

Japan's 2024 Flower of the Year, the Pugster Amethyst butterfly bush, is easy to grow in Savannah's climate with full sun and well-drained soil.

Q: We have some lovely butterfly bushes that are getting too big for their space. When is the best month to prune them back?Letty Konenkamp, Greene County A: Butterfly bush responds very well to ...

Left unpruned, the butterfly bush will soon become top-heavy with floppy shoots and few flowers. One notable quality of this butterfly bush species is its resilience to cold.

There are now six varieties in the Luminary series, Ultraviolet, Opalescence, Sunset Coral, Pink Lightning, Backlight and ...

Ask the Garden Guy: Can you grow a butterfly bush in a container? Plus, tips for keeping those hungry rabbits out. Send your gardening and landscaping questions to [email protected].

A queen butterfly rests on a woolly butterfly bush. This Chihuahuan Desert native plant does great in sunny, well-drained locations in Tucson gardens. A.E. Araiza, Arizona Daily Star file ...

Pugster Blue is Proven Winners National Flowering Shrub of the Year for 2021. Pollinators love it. Intense blue-flowered plant has great fragrance ...