Buddleja davidii 'Miss Ruby'

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Common Name: butterfly bush 

Type: Deciduous shrub

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Zone: 5 to 9

Height: 3.00 to 5.00 feet

Spread: 3.00 to 5.00 feet

Bloom Time: June to September

Bloom Description: Reddish-pink

Sun: Full sun

Water: Medium

Maintenance: Low

Flower: Showy, Fragrant

Attracts: Butterflies

Tolerate: Rabbit, Clay Soil

Garden locations

Culture

Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Becomes weedy and sparse with diminished flowering performance if not grown in full sun. Does poorly in wet, poorly draining conditions. Will adapt to clay soil if properly amended. In USDA Zones 5 and 6, this plant will often die to the ground in winter and therefore is often grown as a herbaceous perennial. Even if plants do not die to the ground in winter, they usually grow more vigorously, produce superior flowers and maintain a better shape if cut close to the ground in late winter each year. Removal of spent flower spikes during the growing season may encourage additional bloom.

'Miss Ruby' plants reportedly produce few seeds (almost sterile) and infrequently sucker in the garden. They flower continuously from June to frost, with no need to deadhead spent blooms.

Noteworthy Characteristics

Buddleja is a genus of about 100 species of mainly shrubs but also some trees and climbers. They are native to Asia, Africa and North and South America. Commonly called butterfly bush, they are very attractive to butterflies and other pollinators.

Genus name honors the Reverend Adam Buddle (1660-1715), English botanist and vicar of Farmbridge in Essex.

The genus name is frequently listed today as Buddleia. However, Linnaeus named the genus Buddleja (pronounced with a silent “j”) which is still considered to be the proper spelling (first name survives) according to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

Common name refers to its attractiveness to butterflies.

‘Miss Ruby’ is the second cultivar to be released to commerce in a new miniature butterfly bush series named LO AND BEHOLD (the first was 'Blue Chip'). This series is being developed at the JC Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina. Plants with additional flower colors are expected to be introduced in this series in the future. 'Miss Ruby' plants grow in manageable, well-branched mounds to only 2-3' tall in one year, but feature bright, reddish-pink flowers in spike-like terminal and axillary clusters. Flowers bloom continuously from June to September and sometimes to first frost. Flowers are fragrant, and, as the common name suggests, very attractive to butterflies. Willowy, elliptic leaves are gray-green. 'Miss Ruby' is a hybrid resulting from a cross between B. 'White Ball' (seed parent) and B. 'Attraction' (pollen parent). U.S. Plant Patent Applied For (PPAF).

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