The butterfly bush is popular, but it's also considered invasive in many U.S. states. Replace it with this compact cultivar ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nothing thrills a gardener like the sight of butterflies flitting through the garden. The brightly colored, winged pollinators transform a mere backyard into ...

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 UC ...

Butterfly bushes (Buddleja davidii) are popular choices in Bay Area gardens, adding abundant cones of bright color during the summer and fall. Their nectar-rich flowers are favorite destinations for ...

Today's homeowners are gardening in smaller plots than their predecessors and finding it more difficult and expensive to care for massive shrub plantings that quickly outgrow their allotted space.

Buddleia is often dismissed as a weedy shrub, spotted growing in cracks by railway tracks or abandoned car lots. But I think we should give more time to this flowering plant. Yes, it is tough and ...

Garden centers typically display plants by their types – trees, shrubs, perennials, vegetables, and so on. Gardeners, on the other hand, aren’t always looking for particular plants or plant types.

IF YOU’VE EVER been surprised when a supposedly dwarf shrub outgrows its intended footprint in the garden, you’re not alone. Compact burning bush (Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’), with growth to 8 to 10 ...

It used to be that everything came in “supersize” — from extra-large boxes of cereal to cars the size of whales to homes on half-acre lots, and more. Today, of course, it seems like everything is ...