Buddleja ‘Ellen’s Blue’
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Buddleja

Butterfly Bush

Around midsummer, when the pendulous racemes of flowers weigh down its boughs, it’s hard to decide which is more satisfying: Buddleia’s abundant, often fragrant blossoms, or the myriad butterflies they attract.

Buddleja ‘Ellen’s Blue’ 

Copious, deeply blue trusses and a shorter compact carriage earned this stellar new Butterfly Bush a tie for first place at Longwood Garden’s Buddleja trials. Originally springing up as a chance ‘Lochinch’ seedling in Ellen Hornig’s New York garden and later introduced by Heronswood Nursery, ‘Ellen’s Blue’s gray-green foliage and light stems shape a relatively small, versatile shrub that is easier to slip into your garden than her more hefty cousins. Good-sized and opulent with a sweet fruity aroma, the floriferous performance lulls zesty summertime shades like the orange torches of Kniphofia ‘Shining Sceptre’.

Blooms June to early October.

Size: 4'–5' high x 4'–5' wide; hardy to zone 5.

Buddleja ‘Ellen’s Blue’ (S-0670)
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Other selections in this genus

• Buddleja crispa
• Buddleja davidii ‘Summer Beauty’
• Buddleja davidii ‘White Profusion’
• Buddleja knappii
• Buddleja x ‘Lochinch’
• Buddleja x pikei ‘Hever’
• Buddleja x weyeriana ‘Bicolor’
• Buddleja x weyeriana ‘Honeycomb’