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Each spring prune the branches down to where you see new leaves forming fairly close to the ground.

Purple butterfly bush purple butterfly weed. Learn how to plant care for and prune butterfly bush in your garden. See pictures of the best non invasive butterfly bushes including miss molly and the lo and behold series plus find alternatives for black knight. Water it a little more in the first year. People rationalize their perceived need for butterfly bush. The butterfly bush buddleia davidii is a beautiful fast growing deciduous shrub with masses of blossoms long spiked trusses that bloom from summer to autumn. Its flowers come in many colors though butterflies seem to prefer the lavender pink mauve of the species to the white and dark purple cultivars. Their larval offspring have to feed on the leaves of native species like butterfly weed other milkweeds joe pye weed and oak trees.

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