How to Use butterfly bush in a Sentence

butterfly bush

noun
  • These butterfly bush pruning tips will help guide your cuts.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026
  • Your first option is to keep your pruners close by when your butterfly bush starts blooming.
    — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Your first option is to keep your pruners close by when your butterfly bush starts blooming.
    — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2022
  • What’s the difference between a chaste tree and a butterfly bush?
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Some, like butterfly bush and peonies, can live for a long time, saving money and work in the long run.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
  • This includes my big leaf hydrangeas and the buddlea (butterfly bush).
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Find out when to prune a butterfly bush and how to make the right cuts to enjoy more flowers on this fast-growing shrub.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026
  • Flowering shrubs such as spice bush, lilac, abelia, and butterfly bush also are good options.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 8 June 2020
  • Buddleia Chrysalis series is a very compact butterfly bush with large blooms.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Keep in mind that butterfly bush is invasive in most parts of the United States.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 25 June 2026
  • Newer butterfly bushes often have been bred to be sterile.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The garden features a number of perennial plants and a butterfly bush.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Plant a butterfly bush in full sun in average soil, and cut plants back in early spring to encourage healthy branching.
    — Jamie McIntosh, The Spruce, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Shrubs such as spiraea, weigela and butterfly bush bloom for long periods while adding color to the garden with their foliage.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Phlox, hollyhock, foxglove, lantana, and butterfly bush are all good choices.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
  • In Hawaii, there are some islands that are virtually all butterfly bushes.
    — Leah Zerbe, Good Housekeeping, 27 Feb. 2017
  • One of the fastest-growing flowering shrubs, a butterfly bush can easily put on 5 feet or more of new growth in a single season.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026
  • Use it to help reduce dark spots, even out skin tone, and nourish, thanks to the blend of prebiotics, probiotics, licorice, chia seeds, and butterfly bush.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There’s a butterfly bush that attracts butterflies, bees and hummingbirds.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • An ecosystem of butterfly bushes and elderberries has taken root inside the stone walls and must be removed.
    — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • For starters, butterfly bush grows invasively in many areas and can cause problems for homeowners and wild landscapes too.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 2 May 2026
  • On top of that, the invasive range of butterfly bush is actively expanding due to climate change and other factors.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 2 May 2026
  • Grow favorites such as mint in containers and opt for sterile versions of butterfly bush and winged burning bush to avoid invasive issues.
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The chaste tree is part of the mint family while the (highly invasive) butterfly bush belongs to the figwort family.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Butterfly Bush Don't jump to the conclusion that your butterfly bush did not survive the winter.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Look for spirea, ninebark, and azalea for spring, and for summer bloomers, plant weigela, rose of Sharon, and butterfly bush (new varieties are not invasive).
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In a colder climate, butterfly bushes often naturally die back to the ground in winter, and have no trouble regrowing from the roots.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026
  • Keep the butterfly bush moist and apply a slow release landscape fertilizer now and in early October.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
  • The small bed has a butterfly bush, which really does attract butterflies, and lilies and primroses are nestled around an angel statue in the center.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2018
  • These include butterfly bush, honeysuckle, echinacea, and chives.
    — Asia London Palomba, The Spruce, 7 Apr. 2026

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