Monarch Prince Charming Butterfly Bush

Buddleia 'Prince Charming'

Walters Gardens
Monarch Collection

An intense color breakthrough with showy cerise pink flowers in late summer when little else blooms, and attracts butterflies; may treat as a perennial and cut it back to the ground each spring as it regrows vigorously and blooms on new wood

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Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Monarch® Prince Charming Butterfly Bush is an open multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Ornamental Qualities

Monarch® Prince Charming Butterfly Bush features showy panicles of fragrant hot pink flowers with red overtones at the ends of the branches from late summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has grayish green deciduous foliage. The fuzzy narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Monarch® Prince Charming Butterfly Bush will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to be a little leggy | with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations | and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH | and is able to handle environmental salt. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level dry to moist

4'Hx4'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are hot pink & red

Flowers from late summer to mid fall

Attracts bees; butterflies; hummingbirds

Known to be safe

Tolerates wet ground.