Q: I have planted butterfly bushes the past two springs. The first one did not come back at all. The one from last year seems mostly dead but has one branch that is getting some green on it. I plan… ...

Butterfly is an invasive species that can be damaging in foreign ecosystems. You don't necessarily have to get rid of established butterfly bush, but manage its growth and don't plant more. Plant ...

Butterfly bushes are officially classified as an invasive plant in at least seven states (North Carolina, Maryland, Oregon, Washington, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey) and are considered ...

While butterfly bushes don’t need much water and bloom beautiful flowers, they have a bad side too. In many places in North America, some species of butterfly bushes (Buddleia) are invasive ...

Butterfly bushes, also known as Buddleja davidii, are a plant species that is native to Asia and attract butterflies, as the name suggests, with vibrant, cone-shaped blossoms.

* What it is: Just about everyone short of discerning horticulturists thinks the chaste tree is a butterfly bush when they see one blooming this time of year. It’s easy to understand because chaste ...

Don't give up yet on the butterfly bushes, though. There's a good chance they'll still leaf out shortly. Even if the top growth has all died, it's likely new growth will push up from the roots.

UNIVERSITY PARK -- In the midst of the monarch butterfly migration season across Texas, state and federal officials joined Laura Bush Tuesday morning to announce a conservation effort to help ...

Butterfly bush nectar isn’t bad for butterflies. It’s just not very good for them, either. Butterfly bush nectar is to butterflies what sugary soda is to humans. Not a Host Plant ...