How do you take care of a kaleidoscope butterfly bush?
How do you take care of a kaleidoscope butterfly bush?
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Caring for Butterfly Bushes Water freely when in growth and sparingly otherwise. In the summer, water if rainfall is less than 1 inch per week. Avoid fertilizing butterfly bush; too much fertility promotes leaf growth over flower production. Remove spent flower spikes to encourage new shoots and flower buds.
Do butterfly bushes have deep roots?
Root Type/Characteristics Butterfly bushes have a fibrous root system designed to wind through the nutritious top layer of soil. While this denies the butterfly bush the anchoring that taproots provide, it also prevents problems with root rot that some deep-rooted plants can have if the long tap sits in water too long.
When do bicolor butterfly bushes start to bloom?
BiColor Butterfly Bush has a compact growth habit, is a deciduous bush, and blooms mid-summer until fall. It provides valuable summer and early fall flowers when few other shrubs are in bloom. Use it as a border specimen or the centerpiece for your pollinator garden!
How did the bicolor butterfly get its name?
Common name refers to its attractiveness to butterflies. ‘Bicolor’ is a hybrid cultivar that was selected by Michael Dirr from open pollinated seedlings of B. x weyeriana ‘Honeycomb’ (usually a sterile hybrid) in a planting at test gardens at the University of Georgia.
What kind of Buddleja has yellow and raspberry flowers?
‘Bicolor’ is a hybrid cultivar that was selected by Michael Dirr from open pollinated seedlings of B. x weyeriana ‘Honeycomb’ (usually a sterile hybrid) in a planting at test gardens at the University of Georgia. As the cultivar name suggests, ‘Bicolor’ is noted for producing both yellow and raspberry colored flowers within the same flower panicle.
Where to grow Buddleja Bicolor in St.Louis?
‘Bicolor’ is reportedly winter hardy in USDA Zones 6-9. In the St. Louis area (Zone 5b-6a), it should be grown in a protected location with a winter mulch. Buddleja is a genus of about 100 species of mainly shrubs but also some trees and climbers.