Miss Molly Butterfly Bush

Make a showy splash with the bold visual impact of Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Miss Molly Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii 'Miss Molly'). The spicy blooms are some of the brightest red-pink on the market!

You'll enjoy months of gorgeous clustered blossoms from summer through fall. Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Miss Molly Butterfly Bush exhibits its sangria-red flowers on a mounded, bushy plant and blooms in late summer until the first hard frost.

Monarch butterflies adore this late-season nectar resource before migration. Jewel-toned Hummingbirds love them, too. They'll coordinate beautifully with the intensely rich hues of Miss Molly's flower spikes.

The arching blooms are fragrant and extend up and above the lush foliage. No one can miss the flower power of these deep pinky-red blossoms!

Miss Molly has a full, bushy, branching habit that supports more flower heads. They stay shapely all season, and are field-tested for many years to stay put where you plant them without self-seeding. Although Miss Molly isn't invasive, some areas regulate the sale of Buddleia. We follow all the regulations to protect your local ecosystem with a software tool called Plant Sentry™.

How to Use Miss Molly Butterfly Bush in the Landscape

Decorate your garden rooms with Miss Molly's sassy charm. You'll always feel good about your choice to support local beneficial pollinators while showing off your style!

Use several to create a dramatic backdrop for your summertime parties. Keep them in extra-large containers on your balcony, or plant them along your front sidewalk. Make your visitors smile with a pair of pots flanking either side of your front door. Miss Molly makes an excellent "Thriller" in outdoor containers. Use them to bring color in a massed display wherever you want to draw people's attention. Style them any way you'd like.

With a gorgeous mounded form, Miss Molly is a good mixer. She'll let her informal side out in sprawling Cottage Gardens and jazz up Groundcover Roses and Prairie perennials in rustic, naturalized designs.

Create a mass planting to cover hot, sunny areas with attractive foliage and incredible color for months. Plant them five feet apart on center to showcase their pretty form.

As you might imagine, the lipstick-red blooms act as a brilliant contrast to mature evergreen shrubs and trees. Perk up your foundation planting with several planted in an expanded curve coming out at the corner of your home.

In the border, you'll be tempted to pair them with Bluebeards, Coneflowers, and Cardinal Flowers in a modern Butterfly Garden. Add Swamp Milkweed as a Host Plant food source for caterpillars, too!

There is a surge of interest in Victory Gardens and Rock Gardens across the country. Plant Miss Molly Butterfly bushes to bring pollinators for your late "second season" plantings for larger yields without needing to fuss over them and water constantly!

Even tiny yards can squeeze the well-behaved Miss Molly into a sunny spot. With such a prolonged bloom cycle, she more than earns her place.

• Fragrant Ruby Red Blooms Feature Magenta Pink Overtone
• Long-Lasting Flower Color & Continuous Blooms Without Deadheading!
• Compact Form & Attractive Aromatic Green Foliage
• Gorgeous Blooms For Bouquets!
• Attracts Butterflies, Hummingbirds & Helpful Pollinators
• En Masse, Mixed Garden Beds, Low Hedge & Can Be Grown in Containers!

#ProPlantTips for Care

This is an improved modern Butterfly Bush variety that is extremely easy to care for with proper site selection.

The cheerful Miss Molly grows best in full sun, so give her at least six hours of direct sunlight a day for those amazing carmine-red blooms! Plant Buddleias in well-drained soil, because they can't tolerate wet roots. If your soil stays soggy after rain, create a raised bed or plant in a container with plenty of drainage. We recommend that you supply a medium amount of water on a regular basis. This is especially important during the first season.

Apply a 3-4 inch deep layer of arborist mulch over the root system, pulling it back from the stems. In early spring, apply a fertilizer for flowering plants. Follow the directions on the label.

While these floriferous plants will keep pumping out blooms without deadheading, you will get the best flower display if you take time to trim spent flowers periodically. It really takes very little time, and you might relish the chance to study your beautiful plant up close. Prune Miss Molly Butterfly Bush in late winter to the ground in cooler climates, and it will grow again from the crown in spring. But just trim back winter dieback in warmer climates.

• Sun Loving & Easy-Care
• Almost Any Well-Drained Soil Type
• Moderate to Low Moisture Needs
• Can Be Perennial In Cold Climates/Deciduous Shrub in Warm Winters
• Field Tested as a Non-Invasive Variety
• Rarely Damaged by Deer or Rabbits

We're excited to offer this Proven Winners selection. Our expert growers take pride in delivering healthy shrubs with a robust root system...right to your doorstep!

Get blooms for months and cherish your glamorous Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Miss Molly Butterfly Bush! Your local pollinators certainly will! Order yours today from Nature Hills!