Ile de France Butterfly Bush
We may or may not have this in store at Heeman's. Products and quantity vary by season.
| Height | 5 feet |
|---|---|
| Spread | 5 feet |
A very valuable garden plant with showy violet purple flowers in late summer when little else blooms, and attracts butterflies; may treat as a perennial and cut it back to the ground each spring as it regrows vigorously and blooms on new wood
Additional Information
| Colour | violet |
|---|---|
| Effect | Showy |
| Eye Colour | Yellow |
| Fragrance | High |
| Hold | End |
| Period | from mid summer to mid fall |
| Value | High |
| Inflorescence | Panicle |
|---|---|
| Evergreen Deciduous | Deciduous |
| Detail | Tomentose |
| Shape | Narrow |
| Summer Colour | gray green |
| Colour | brown |
|---|---|
| Texture | smooth |
| Hardiness Zone | 6b |
|---|---|
| Sunlight | full sun |
| Moisture | dry to moist |
| Plant Form | upright spreading |
| Plant Origin | import |
| Wildlife Attraction | bees, butterflies, hummingbirds |
| Landscape Application | Container, Garden, Massing |
| Pollution Tolerance | high |
| Growth Rate | fast |
| Branching | multi-stemmed |
| Canopy | leggy |
| Density | open |
| Cultivar | Ile de France |
| Family | Butterfly Bush |
| Genus | Buddleia |
| Other Species Names | Summer Lilac |
| Species | davidii |
| Lifespan | 20 |
| Pruning | late winter pruning |
| Texture | medium |
