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Deadheading also can encourage your butterfly bush to continue blooming into fall.
5.—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2025 These butterfly bush pruning tips will help guide your cuts.—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2025 Plants that bloom on new wood include roses, crepe myrtles (Lagerstroemia indica), butterfly bushes (Buddleia spp.),rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus), panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata), and Abelia spp.—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2025 Both are deciduous shrubs that produce colorful clusters of flowers that attract butterflies and other pollinators but chaste tree and butterfly bush are not closely related.—Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for butterfly bush
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