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What is your favorite fragrant butterfly bush?

Posted by peachymomo 9b (My Page) on
Wed, Aug 18, 10 at 11:20

My mother has a wonderfully scented white butterfly bush, I want to plant lavender or purple flowered butterfly bushes but would like one that is fragrant as well. I have room to plant a cluster of three, I was thinking of putting in two that are taller with one that is shorter in front.

I looked around online for some info and these were the purple flowered varieties that I found: Nanho Blue or Purple, Empire Blue, Fascination, and Lochinch.

Which are the most fragrant and vigorous? I live in Ca zone 9b or Sunset 14 and the place in my garden I will be planting gets dappled morning shade and full afternoon sun.


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RE: What is your favorite fragrant butterfly bush?

  • Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
    Thu, Aug 19, 10 at 13:31

This plant is a pioneering species that dominates open habitats. It poses an ecological threat to dry-land meadows, open slopes and dunes, dominating these sites as much as Scotch broom has historically. It also invades reforested sites, resulting in a loss of forest productivity.

Here is a link that might be useful: Butterfly bush


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