Pink Delight Butterfly Bush
Buddleia davidii 'Pink Delight'
A very popular garden specimen with showy pink 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.
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Pink Delight Butterfly Bush is an open multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. 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.
Ornamental Qualities
Pink Delight Butterfly Bush features showy panicles of fragrant pink flowers at the ends of the branches from mid summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has grayish green deciduous foliage. The fuzzy narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.
Planting and Growing
Pink Delight Butterfly Bush will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 5 feet. It tends to be a little leggy | with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground | and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations | and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH | and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level dry to moist
Mature Size 5'Hx5'W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are pink with strong fragrance
Flowers from mid summer to mid fall
Attracts bees; butterflies; hummingbirds
Zone 5b
Likes average to moist soil