Fourth of July Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii ‘Grefoj’). Also known as Tri-Colored Butterfly Bush, is a fast-growing ornamental shrub with particular appeal to pollinators and a reblooming, tri-color display! Fragrant and blooming from summer until frost, you’ll enjoy wave after wave of tall wands of flowers!
Just like a firecracker, the Fourth of July Butterfly Bush will explode with color in your landscape every year! The dazzling display of not just one, but three colors, will be a head-turning sight that friends and neighbors are sure to notice! Long spikes of clustered blossoms will shoot high above your Fourth of July in mid-summer and repeat their stunning bloom of white, pink and purple flowers well into autumn!
The brilliant color and enticing fragrance are an irresistible lure to hummingbirds, bees…and especially butterflies. In fact, your Tri-Colored Butterfly Bush may be so covered in butterflies, that at times you’ll wonder where the bush ends and the butterflies begin! Fourth of July Butterfly Bush is a fast and vigorous growing shrub, sure to bring its grace and beauty to your yard in no time at all.
Planting and Application:
Plant one for a one-of-a-kind focal point in your front yard, or use a few along your garage for the most amazing informal and light hedge your neighbors will ever see. Plant by your mailbox or among a mixed shrub border for fragrance and color! Anchor your front porch and front entry garden or add one to the end of your home’s foundation planting for a bright focal point!
It has an upright form, is easy to grow and requires minimal maintenance. Use along the back sunny edges of your property without worry the deer will mow them to the ground! Pollinator gardens and cottage borders, rock gardens and hummingbird plantings all benefit from these tri-colored blooms!
- Brilliant Tri-Color Blooms for Months
- Faster Growing & Vigorous Herbaceous Shrub
- Butterflies & Hummingbirds Galore!
- Very Low Maintenance
- Fragrant Garden Bed & Border, Specimen & Cut Flower
Tips for Care:
Heat and sun tolerance in USDA growing zones 5-10, these shrubby perennials bloom best in full sun and tolerate partial shade. However, you’ll notice fewer blossoms in less than 6 hours a day of sunlight. Plant in a very well-drained location with moderate water when establishing and during peak summer temperatures. Your Fourth of July can even be cut back to the ground when dormant with no problem and simply regrows anew each spring.
- Full Sun & Partial Shade
- Any Well-Drained Soil
- Prune When Dormant
- Moderate Moisture
- Deer & Rabbit Resistant & Drought Tolerant Once Established
For butterflies, beauty and more…plant a Fourth of July Butterfly Bush today! You’ll be glad you did!
