Plant Snapshot: Flutterby Petite Buddleia

Meadows farms nurseriesName: Flutterby Petite buddleia

Description: Mounded, spreading habit with panicles of tubular flowers.

Landscape use: As a groundcover along borders, embankments or any landscape planting; also good in large mixed containers. Adaptable  to a wide range of soil types and growing conditions. Flutterby Petite attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.

Hardiness: USDA Hardiness Zone 5

Buddleia Flutterby Petite
Try this low-growing series as a colorful groundcover.

Buddleia is a staple landscape selection, but the Flutterby Petite series from Ball Ornamentals offers a new use to contractors.

Thanks to its compact and spreading habit, Flutterby Petite works well as a groundcover.

It grows low and wide, spreading up to 3 feet with fuzzy foliage and dense, continuous flowers from early summer until frost, depending on the cultivar. Use Flutterby Petite to extend sales throughout the summer.

Flutterby Petite is a free flowering selection with panicles of tubular flowers that hummingbirds and butterflies find appealing. Colors range from white to pink to lavender. Less viable seed makes this series an ecologically responsible option, along with its drought and heat tolerance. Plants are hardy to USDA Hardiness Zone 5.

Warmer temperatures will help increase the rate of growth during production. Full sun is best for optimum growth rate and compact habit, and pruning is recommended to increase branching habit. Plants ship easily.
 

• Flutterby Petite Blue Heaven features silver foliage and continuous blue flowers from early summer until frost. Blue Heaven grows from 24 to 30 inches high and wide. Spacing is 36 to 48 inches.
   
• Flutterby Petite Dark Pink offers small deep-green foliage and smaller dark pink/purple flowers that continuously bloom from early summer until frost. Dark Pink grows 24 to 30 inches high and wide. Spacing is 24 to 48 inches.
   
• Flutterby Petite Lavender has gray-green foliage and lavender flowers in spring, summer and fall. It grows 24-to 36 inches high and-wide. Spacing is 24 to 48 inches.
   
• Flutterby Petite Pink is even more compact and grows 12 to 24 inches high and wide. Spacing is 24 to 48 inches. Pink flowers shine in front of the green foliage.
   
• Flutterby Petite Snow White offers a nice contrast of gray foliage and white flowers. Snow White also grows 12-to 24 inches high and wide. Spacing is 24 to 48 inches.
   
• Flutterby Petite Tutti Fruitti Pink features bright fuchsia-pink flowers and scented foliage. Tutti Fruitti Pink grows 24 to 30 inches high and wide. Spacing is 24 to 48 inches.