Black Knight Butterfly Bush Buddleia Oldtimer/Hardy

Pros: Beautiful sweet fragrant flowers attracting many butterflies
Cons: Grows back into the ground and does not grow again until mid-summer

The Black Knight Butterfly Bush is a deciduous bush that makes it appearance in mid-summer, produces extremely dark purple black fragrant spikes of flowers until late summer early fall, attracts butterflies, and then disappears into the ground until next ...

Pros: easy to care for, long lasting bloom period
Cons: none for me

If you are looking for a way to draw butterflies to your garden, as well as a perky color boost in the summer, you can’t go wrong picking a Black Knight Butterfly Bush [Buddleia davidii]. It is a deciduous shrub, rangy in habit, covered with ...