This year ‘The Garden Guy’ decided to add some dwarf buddleia into his arsenal of pollinator plants. The idea of 3-foot tall or less buddleias, or butterfly bushes, seemed like just what the doctor ordered to be able to incorporate them with lantanas, rudbeckias, gaillardia and salvias for a colorful wild Serengetistyle backyard habitat. Lo and behold, I have a found a Garden Guy favorite.
I hope you are smiling with my little Lo & Behold segue. There is a brand spanking new selection called Lo & Behold Ruby Chip. Oh my gosh you will love it for its habit and its non-stop bloom production. It will compete with all of your favorite pollinator plants including salvias. I’ve felt like nothing could compete with Rockin salvias and here is this little buddleia always with blooms, always with bees and butterflies and getting attention from hummers too.
I remember well the first buddleia I saw as a young ornamental horticulturist. It was well over two stories tall, can you say “Holy Firewood.” These new buddleias I am growing feel like the perfect complement to the perennial garden. Notice I am talking plural here, even though my new love is Lo & Behold Ruby Chip.
