Blue Chip Jr Butterfly Bush Buddleia X Blue Chip Jr

Buddleia blue chip jr is a 2014 release from nc state plant breeder dr.

Blue chip jr butterfly bush buddleia x blue chip jr. Butterfly bush buddleia davidii blue chip jr has a small stature but incredible blooms. For us flowering on this sterile hybrid starts in early june and continues through the summer. Blue chip is a butterfly bush so named because they actually do attract a variety of butterflies and bees. Lo and behold blue chip jr butterfly bush buddleia live shrub blue purple flowers 4 5 in. Blue chip stays under three feet tall without any pruning and blooms continuously from mid summer to frost without deadheading. The blue chip jr. Plant a few along an outbuilding for a decorative hedge or just one in any spot for a lively focal point that s sure to enliven even the most drab location.

Butterfly bush also known as summer lilac is a wonderful new dwarf form of the old fashioned butterfly bush with all the good points and none of the bad ones. It is frost tolerant non invasive and very easy to grow. Description blue chip jr dwarf buddleia this popular dwarf butterfly bush is a true charmer and a winner of silver medal from platinum. Unlike the original buddleia blue chip buddleia blue chip jr is much smaller and flatter forming a 30 tall x 5 wide clump in 3 years. Look to this slightly smaller variety to show bluer flowers and a much earlier bloom time ensuring even more color beauty and butterflies. Blue chip is the first cultivar to be released to commerce in a new miniature butterfly bush series named lo and behold. Butterfly bush buddleja x blue chip jr plant patent 26 581.

Plants with additional flower colors are expected to be introduced in this series in the future. The fact that blue chip butterfly bush blossoms during the latter part of the growing season means that it will display fall flowers at a time when few other shrubs are flowering helping you to extend the sequence of bloom in your garden. It is characterized by smaller less brittle and attractive silver green leaves with rich lavender blue fragrant flowers that provide a distinctive vibrant color from summer until frost. It has a gentle rounded nature and compact habit. Tall and wide bluish purple blooms and silver green leaves attracts bees butterflies and hummingbirds while resisting deer. The original lo behold blue chip butterfly bush was a game changing plant and lo behold blue chip jr is an even better version. This little butterfly bush really is a charmer.

Plant breeders rights applied for sku 40762 this new addition to the lo behold series is more compact than blue chip with a dwarf slightly spreading habit. It has all the fragrance and butterfly appeal of traditional varieties in a small easy to maintain package.