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

Pugster Pink Butterfly Bush is an open multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. 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

Pugster Pink Butterfly Bush features showy panicles of fragrant pink flowers with orange eyes at the ends of the branches from mid summer to mid fall | which emerge from distinctive hot pink flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Pugster Pink Butterfly Bush will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 3 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 typical garden 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

Mature Size 24"Hx3'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are pink with strong fragrance

Flowers from mid summer to mid fall

Attracts bees; butterflies; hummingbirds

Zone 4b

Likes average to moist soil