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Newest Review: ... friend told me that dark butterflies were attracted by bushes with white panicles and white butterflies by the ones with dark panicles, but from what I've noticed this is not true. We've got a bush with violet panicles and butterflies of all colours come. If they come at all! This was a shock for us, we had so looked forward to swarms of butterflies coming to our garden, but when the bush ... more

... was in bloom the first time, hardly any came. Now I must tell you something about the current situation of butterflies. They're endangered because they can find less food plants in our towns nowadays. They like weeds, and people don't want...more

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butterflybush.net: Butterfly Bush (806 words)
by - written on 07/08/09 (Very useful, 133 readings)
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We've got a summer lilac, aka Buddleia (also spelled Buddleja), aka Butterfly Bush in our garden. Three terms for rather a modest and self-sufficient plant. Summer lilac because its narrow branches support lilac-like panicles of blossoms, 10 to 50 cm long, and because the most widespread colours are light purple and white (but there are also blue and pink ones). Buddleia after the seventeenth century amateur botanist Adam Buddle from Essex who was honoured with the name posthumously in 1774. The first specimen came from Chile, the plants we have today in our gardens, however, go back to seeds of Buddleia davidii which the French Jesuit missionary P. A. David brought from ... Read the complete review

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