Introducing Mop Top™ Fountain Butterfly Bush, a unique dwarf butterfly bush graces the landscape with beautiful weeping purple flowers. Unlike other butterfly bush varieties, Mop Top™ is compact and blooms in springtime instead of summer, inviting early-season pollinators like bumblebees, red admirals, and mourning cloak butterflies to play along borders or even in containers. Drought-tolerant and low-maintenance, this shrub thrives in hot climates, requiring minimal effort from you. Cannot be shipped to OR or WA.
Vital details:
Size: 3-5′ x 3-5′ tall and wide.
Light: Full sun (6+ hrs/day).
Water: Low to average watering; soil can even be dry once established. Butterfly bush does not tolerate wet conditions for any period.
Hardiness: USDA zone 5-8 (Find your hardiness zone).
Pollinator value: Attracts early-season pollinators like bumblebees, carpenter bees, Red Admirals, Eastern Comma, and Mourning Cloak butterflies.
Notable features: Proven Winners, fragrant, deer resistant, drought tolerant, long blooming, deadheading not required.
Plant name: Buddleia alternifolia ‘SMNBAB’ PPAF; CBRAF
For complete growing details, click on over to our garden guide.