Q: I have recently planted a butterfly bush in my backyard and it's growing rapidly. When is the right time to prune it? It currently has beautiful flowers and is great for attracting butterflies, but ...

The National Garden Bureau has selected several plants under its "Year of" program. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Year of the Angelonia, NGB's chosen annual. The organization dared go where ...

The woolly butterfly bush (Buddleia marrubiifolia) is a near-native from the neighboring Chihuahuan desert. It’s a great pollinator plant, has attractive grey-green leaves and bright orange clusters ...

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. They can ...

A resident of a street in Preston says he was horrified to be told it is his responsibility to rectify damage caused to his property by an invasive plant growing on council land – and that he could ...

THE appearance of considerable numbers of plants of Buddleia variabilis on a bombed site in Kensington, as recorded in NATURE 1, is not an isolated case. During a recent study of the flora of the site ...

“Good Golly Miss Molly How Beautiful You Are” is just the response one of my Facebook followers wrote upon seeing my post. This was a statement of awe about one of the best butterfly bushes in the ...