Blue Chip Jr Butterfly Bush Buddleia X Blue Chip Jr

It is frost tolerant non invasive and very easy to grow.

Blue chip jr butterfly bush buddleia x blue chip jr. Plant a few along an outbuilding for a decorative hedge or just one in any spot for a lively focal point that s sure to enliven even the most drab location. The blue chip jr. Butterfly bush buddleja x blue chip jr plant patent 26 581. Lo behold blue chip jr.

Blue chip is the first cultivar to be released to commerce in a new miniature butterfly bush series named lo and behold. Look to this slightly smaller variety to show bluer flowers and a much earlier bloom time ensuring even more color beauty and butterflies. The original lo behold blue chip butterfly bush was a game changing plant and lo behold blue chip jr is an even better version. Tall and wide bluish purple blooms and silver green leaves attracts bees butterflies and hummingbirds while resisting deer.

It is characterized by smaller less brittle and attractive silver green leaves with rich lavender blue fragrant flowers that provide a distinctive vibrant color from summer until frost. Unlike the original buddleia blue chip buddleia blue chip jr is much smaller and flatter forming a 30 tall x 5 wide clump in 3 years. Blue chip is a butterfly bush so named because they actually do attract a variety of butterflies and bees. The fact that blue chip butterfly bush blossoms during the latter part of the growing season means that it will display fall flowers at a time when few other shrubs are flowering helping you to extend the sequence of bloom in your garden.

Description blue chip jr dwarf buddleia this popular dwarf butterfly bush is a true charmer and a winner of silver medal from platinum. It has all the fragrance and butterfly appeal of traditional varieties in a small easy to maintain package. Lo and behold blue chip jr butterfly bush buddleia live shrub blue purple flowers 4 5 in. For us flowering on this sterile hybrid starts in early june and continues through the summer.

Buddleia blue chip jr is a 2014 release from nc state plant breeder dr. Plant breeders rights applied for sku 40762 this new addition to the lo behold series is more compact than blue chip with a dwarf slightly spreading habit. This series is being developed at the raulston arboretum in north carolina. Blue chip stays under three feet tall without any pruning and blooms continuously from mid summer to frost without deadheading.

Butterfly bush also known as summer lilac is a wonderful new dwarf form of the old fashioned butterfly bush with all the good points and none of the bad ones. It has a gentle rounded nature and compact habit. 5 9 grows 2 ft.