Does Your Nose Know What My Nose Knows was the name of a creative article written by an author during my time as the Executive Director of the American Rose Society. Obviously, the reference was to the fragrance found in roses. I would like to pass this question on to you and the butterfly bush or buddleia. Mrs. Jan and I are blissfully on the same page when it comes to the Pugster varieties we are growing.
Last year I planted six. Three got moved to sunnier landscape locations in the fall. So now in the early summer a year later, we are experiencing all their delicious fragrance to the max and on a daily basis. They are actually the most fun and enjoyable shrubs I’ve grown in a long time. May I do my part to start a family argument: Are these deciduous shrubs or cold hardy perennials? To add further to the confusion, they all stayed evergreen in my zone 8 garden. But I did escape the big chill of Texas, Louisiana and Alabama.
Don’t argue about all those questions. Just know you will delight in the fragrance, the short compact habit and totally relish in the opportunity to play host to bees, butterflies and hummingbirds like never before. Even better, you will find that they are deer resistant. I can testify to that as I got hit fairly hard a few weeks ago with the deer eating azaleas, hydrangeas and even echinacea, but they left the Pugster Blue alone.
