One Blue Butterfly Bush will be left outside to test its hardiness for our Zone 7. Some Zone 8-9 gardeners say it will freeze back to the ground, but roots survive and send up new stems in the spring.

Trailing lavender lantana a long-flowering butterfly magnet By Kathy Huber , Garden Editor, Houston Chronicle July 6, 2012 Trailing lavender lantana produces 1-inch clusters of small, white-eyed ...

The blue butterfly bush is an open, sprawling evergreen shrub that can grow to 10 feet tall and wide. With careful pruning it can be kept much smaller. Blue flowers bloom summer through fall ...

Lavender is a classic choice ... gray-green foliage and spikes of beautiful purple-blue flowers," says ... Buddleia or butterfly bush brings so much personality to a garden and also draws ...

Butterfly bush is not just for smelling though. The plant is also well worth looking at, with its lanky branches terminating in spikes of small blue flowers. And each flower has an orange eye. Som ...

The butterfly bushes are looking pretty sad these days as they are showing the effects of the hard winter weather. These bushes have greyish green foliage and long spikes of pale lavender flowers ...

Janice Fancher wanted flowers, but not a crowd of bloomers in her townhome garden. Besides, a cottage garden might be a bit rambunctious for the tiny space. She and Norm Arnold of Glorious Gardens ...

Garden Gems: Dwarf butterfly bush, such as Buzz Lavender from the Buzz Series, stay relatively compact, but still offer big blooms. Ellen Zagory This is one part in a weekly series featuring the ...