Description
Description:
A compact garden plant with large, full size amethyst flowers with orange eyes on sturdy stems; attracts butterflies; may treat as a perennial and cut it back to the ground each spring as it regrows vigorously and blooms on new wood
Ornamental Features:
Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush features showy panicles of fragrant violet flowers with lavender overtones and orange eyes at the ends of the branches from mid summer to mid fall, which emerge from distinctive purple flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has green deciduous foliage. The narrow leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.
Landscape Attributes:
Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush is an open multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush is recommended for the following landscape applications;
