The Bomb Site Butterfly Bush.

My Buddleias seem to be late flowering this year.  It's probably because most of my gardens are North (Northsider) facing.   I brought one plant with me to Ireland that I had  took from a cutting about twenty years ago.

Some people say they are invasive and that's why they called the bomb site bush.  I saw some wonderful self seeded specimens growing at Temple Mead Station in Bristol in 2018 on my way to Hardy country.

You can grow them from seed but I like to make cuttings of them and over winter them in pots in "Portugal" my polytunnel or until they are rooted anyway.

I must look for some different colours.  Have you any red ones?  Mine are bluey purple.  I am not female and can't do shades.  If I went in a paint shop I would ask for a tin of "red" paint.  If they asked me what shade I wanted?  I would reply: "Red".  I know what Azure is.  It's  blue!  See what I mean?

My Buddleia bushes.  If you want to attract butterflies and bees to your garden.  Plant a Buddleia Bush.  Sedums attract them too.