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#1 ·
I planted several hedges of butterfly bush at our place. Purple and golden ball.

While honey bees do visit the purple ones - they are all over the golden ball bushes. It can be like a crazy traffic jam of polinators at times. Long summer flowering. Good things about buddlia are - fast growing, evergreen(for privacy hedges) and best of all dont seem to require much additional water. In my area I can find them at just about any good nursury. Im pretty happy with them all in all.

Matt
 
#6 ·
The purple one I also have, the bees love it and so does everything else. I have seen the butterfly bush as large as 15 feet wide and 20 feet tall:eek::D

Damb Joe you want a species name, ( Buddleia Davidii--Black Knight )
 
#7 ·
"Buddliea" try this picture Golden Globe is so busy in summer. Ive seen it listed as: orange buddliea too.

Forest farm in oregon has buddliea, Evodia, both vitex, and alot of other rare nectar trees for sale. they even have a code listing for honey plants.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25193206@N03/2551983526/

lots of images with bee on them yahoo image search

hope this helps,

Matt
 
#9 ·
well... for us they keep their leaves:) Our winter lows are about 25F.

Then again in the summer it gets upward of 110F. In fact for the last 3 days it was in the 108F range. Some relief today of 95.

...and as far as being a hedge plant...I didnt mean to imply that it was a topiary plant. onlyt hat it seems to keep the local skateboarders from scramling over the front fence. It got to be 15 feet in two seasons.
 
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