How to Use butterfly bush in a Sentence

butterfly bush

noun

• Your first option is to keep your pruners close by when your butterfly bush starts blooming.
  — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Sep. 2020
• Your first option is to keep your pruners close by when your butterfly bush starts blooming.
  — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2022
• This includes my big leaf hydrangeas and the buddlea (butterfly bush).
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2023
• Of course, there is also the obligatory butterfly bush.
  — Judy Hake, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 17 Apr. 2021
• The garden features a number of perennial plants and a butterfly bush.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2019
• Buddleia Chrysalis series is a very compact butterfly bush with large blooms.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2022
• Look for spirea, ninebark, and azalea for spring, and for summer bloomers, plant weigela, rose of Sharon, and butterfly bush (new varieties are not invasive).
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 Feb. 2023
• Flowering shrubs such as spice bush, lilac, abelia, and butterfly bush also are good options.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 8 June 2020
• Snapshot: It may be nicknamed butterfly bush, but hummingbirds love it, too.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 15 Dec. 2017
• An ecosystem of butterfly bushes and elderberries has taken root inside the stone walls and must be removed.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• In Hawaii, there are some islands that are virtually all butterfly bushes.
  — Leah Zerbe, Good Housekeeping, 27 Feb. 2017
• The small bed has a butterfly bush, which really does attract butterflies, and lilies and primroses are nestled around an angel statue in the center.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2018
• There are a lot of sterile butterfly bush (Buddleia) cultivars on this list from the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
  — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2020
• Your third option is to not plant butterfly bush at all, but instead, plant a native species like orange woolly butterfly bush or Utah butterfly bush, both of which grow in warmer regions.
  — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2022
• Keep the butterfly bush moist and apply a slow release landscape fertilizer now and in early October.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
• Phlox, hollyhock, foxglove, lantana, and butterfly bush are all good choices.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
• Here’s a link to an OSU publication on invasive (fertile) butterfly bush.
  — oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
• Remove invasive plants such as butterfly bush, Himalayan blackberry, ivy, mullein, thistle and tree of heaven.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2022
• Examples of shrubs that flower on new growth include crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia species), beauty berry (Callicarpa species) and butterfly bush (Buddleia species).
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Oct. 2022
• Note the list includes butterfly weed, which is native to Wisconsin, but not butterfly bush, a nonnative that is considered controversial or invasive in some areas of the U.S.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• Perennials that may rebloom if deadheaded include bleeding heart, butterfly bush, campanula, columbine, some types of roses, salvia, and yarrow.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 2 Aug. 2021
• In addition to the abundance of foliage and perennials — including salvia, daylilies, geraniums, butterfly bush, hydrangeas, and more — Lisa has also sprinkled other fun accents throughout the garden.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2022
• Among the virtual rainbow of plants are foxtail agave, sea lavender, society garlic, blue chalksticks, lantana, Texas sundrop, paddle plants, butterfly bush, cape plumbago, agapanthus and a small bougainvillea bush.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
• While the butterflies enjoy landing atop and feeding on the flat-faced lantana, they’re particularly attracted to the milkweed, yarrow and several varieties of butterfly bush (Buddleja).
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
• This creamy moisturizer uses butterfly bush to fight off damage caused by UV rays and nourishing rosehip oil to reduce hyperpigmentation.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 9 Aug. 2022
• Some of the best plants to attract a variety of pollinators are coneflower, phlox, monarda, butterfly bush, sedum, any variety of daisy, liatris, any variety of milkweed, lantana, zinnia, Joe Pye weed, allium and pearly everlasting.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2020
• However, earwigs also unfortunately eat ornamental and vegetable plants, particularly dahlias, zinnias, butterfly bush, hollyhocks, lettuce, strawberries, potatoes, roses, and seedling beans and beets, as well as the silk of sweet corn.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024