Butterfly Bush.

Just about tough as old boots - but...
About 20 years ago I took a couple of cuttings from a very big B. Globosa that was growing at the school where I worked. That winter there was a very severe frost and the donor became an ex-budleia.
The cuttings were grown on in our garden and the following year I was able to pay back by planting a cutting of a cutting at the school.

The budleias in our garden were cut back every year and provided us with pea and bean supports until last year when they finally fell to the saw due to a major re-organsiation of the garden.

(I think B. Davidii is better for attracting butterflies than B. Globosa )

[ 05. April 2006, 10:56 PM: Message edited by: Dave W ]

 

One plant I really don't like is the globosa!! Don't know why, but I really can't like it! I like my buddleia spikes to be spikes - not little balls! Is this controversial, or do others feel like I do? :rolleyes:

 

I'd go for blue spikes rather than yellow balls.
But maybe I'm just a wannabe punk

 

I love Buddleias but I have to say I don't like the Globosa flower form as much as the spikes....Perhaps they would be more popular if renamed 'Golden Balls'.
I have a yellow one called 'Sundance' which has spikes. I do like the 'Alternifolia' flower form though, with little flowers all along the stems.
I haven't noticed any difference with bee attraction, but I think bees are more sensitive to the blue end of the spectrum.

 

Globosa smells nice tho. :D :D