My blue butterfly bush was already more three feet tall, and the garden area had room for a red and white border. For that, I selected white penta and red salvia plants.

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.

Other plants, such as the aptly-named butterfly bush produce flowers that attract plenty of species of pollinator, ... Keep Reading: 20 Blue Flowers for Your Garden. skhoward - Getty Images.

The Butterfly bush, also known as Buddleia davidii in the plant world, is known for its elegant silvery green foliage and colorful blooms. It comes in many varieties and can grow between 2-12 feet ...

This fall and winter, I’ve been going back to look at some of my really, really favorite plants that I’ve talked about over the years as host of Southern Gardening ...

Which brings me to ice plant, a non-native, invasive plant that has been used over the years for erosion control by misguided Californians. Butterfly-wise, it is an enemy of all that is good and holy.

As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, the Xerces blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation. New research signals a warning for insect conservation as ...

The El Segundo Blue Butterfly has been endangered since the 1970s. ... seacliff buckwheat, we were able to populate the garden with El Segundo Blue Butterflies,” says Wolff.

Learn which ones to plant for a busy garden. Butterflies will visit lots of flowers, but there are a select few that specifically attract them. Learn which ones to plant for a busy garden.