Butterfly Candy™ Lil? Coconut™ Butterfly Bush

Buddleia davidii ’BotEx 003’

$99⁹⁹

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Understanding Plant Options

Nature Hills offers plants in two main formats:

Container Plants: Grown in pots with soil, sized by container volume and plant age
Bare Root Plants: Dormant plants without soil, sized by height measurements

Container Plant Sizes

Container sizes indicate plant age and growing capacity rather than liquid volume equivalents. Our containers follow industry-standard nursery "trade gallon" specifications, which differ from standard liquid gallon measurements.

Young Plants (6 months to 18 months old)

Container Size	Actual Volume	Metric Equivalent
2" x 2" x 3"	0.18 - 0.21 dry quarts	0.20 - 0.23 dry liters
4" Container	0.31 - 0.87 dry quarts	0.35 - 0.96 dry liters
4.5" Container	0.65 dry quarts	0.72 dry liters
6" Container	1.4 dry quarts	1.59 dry liters
1 Quart	1 dry quart	1.1 dry liters
5.5" Container	1.89 dry quarts	2.08 dry liters

Established Plants (18 months to 2.5 years old)

Container Size	Actual Volume	Metric Equivalent
2 Quart	2 dry quarts	2.2 dry liters
#1 Container	2.26 - 3.73 dry quarts	2.49 - 4.11 dry liters
5" x 5" x 12"	3.5 - 4.3 dry quarts	3.85 - 4.74 dry liters

Mature Plants (2-4 years old)

Container Size	Actual Volume	Metric Equivalent
#2 Container	1.19 - 1.76 dry gallons	5.24 - 7.75 dry liters
#3 Container	2.15 - 2.76 dry gallons	8.14 - 12.16 dry liters

Large Plants (3-5 years old)

Container Size	Actual Volume	Metric Equivalent
#5 Container	2.92 - 4.62 dry gallons	12.86 - 20.35 dry liters
#6 Container	5.25 - 6.01 dry gallons	23.12 - 26.42 dry liters
#7 Container	5.98 - 6.53 dry gallons	26.34 - 28.76 dry liters

Bare Root Plants

Bare root plants are sold by height from the root system to the top of the plant. Plants may exceed minimum height requirements.

Common Sizes:

Trees: 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, 4 feet, 5 feet, 6 feet
Shrubs & Perennials: 1 foot, 18 inches, 2 feet

Important Notes

Container Volume Specifications

Trade Gallon Standard: Our containers follow industry-standard "trade gallon" specifications established by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI Z60.1) for nursery stock
Volume Variations: Actual soil volume may vary due to plant root systems and growing medium settlement
Age Indicators: Container size primarily indicates plant age and maturity rather than liquid volume equivalents

Growing Conditions

Plant size can vary based on variety and growing conditions
Container size helps indicate plant maturity and establishment level
Larger containers generally mean more established root systems and faster landscape establishment

Seasonal Availability

Bare root plants are available seasonally when dormant
Container plants are available throughout the growing season
Specific varieties may have limited availability in certain sizes

Questions?

For questions about specific plant sizes or availability, please contact our plant experts who can help you choose the right size for your landscape needs.

Plant Highlights

Butterfly Candy™ Lil? Coconut™ Butterfly Bush highlights at a glance!

Specifications

Brand

Butterfly Candy®
Botanical Name

Buddleia davidii ’BotEx 003’
Growing Zones

5-10
Mature Height

2 - 3 feet
Mature Spread

2 - 3 feet
Sun Exposure

Full Sun
Moisture

Moderate
Soil

Well Drained
Growth Rate

Medium
Pollinator Friendly

Yes
Fragrant

Yes
Pruning Time

Late Winter
Bloom Period

Late Spring, Summer, Fall

Growing Zones 5-10

Find Your Growing Zone!

Upright spires of white! The Butterfly Candy™ Lil' Coconut™ Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii 'BotEx 003') brings the biodiversity of winged visitors to your landscape with its sweet scent and lovely creamy white hues! Held aloft in upright fluffy tapering panicles, this white-flowering Buddleia adds space-saving drama to the garden!

The new Butterfly Candy™ line of Buddleia is wonderfully dense and stays just 2-3 feet in height and width but is packed full of compact, lighter green foliage. Each branch ends in a vertically pointed cluster of tiny scented blooms that are held up like beacons for all the butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds!

Lil' Coconut™ is hardy throughout chilly USDA growing zones 5 to steamy zone 10! The floriferous blooms keep returning for your pollinators and cut flower arrangements so long as you keep deadheading spent blooms. Woody perennials in cooler climates, and deciduous shrubs in warmer ones, Butterfly Bushes usually are slow to start in colder zones, but grow fast once temps are just right! They can grow sooner in warmer zones where they can start to bloom in late spring. Once growing, all Butterfly Bushes bloom through summer, and continue into fall!

Planting and Application:

Butterfly Candy™ Butterfly Bushes are must-have treats for the Pollinator Garden! Full of vital nectar resources for all your winged visitors! The flowers look lovely in cut flower arrangements too! Plant among other perennials or flowering shrubs and turn any cottage garden, Rock garden, or perennial border into a pollinator garden!

Wonderful accents in any part of the sunny landscape, the creamy white spires of blooms seem to meld with all color plants and all garden styles! Small and compact enough for Container gardeners and porch planters, while being easy-care enough to create Mass plantings and fill your landscape with hardy, versatile, white blooms!

Set out a birdbath, a bee watering station, and a garden bench, and enjoy front-row seats as the winged visitors arrive in droves! Kids love watching Lil' Coconut™ attract tons of wildlife, so set up a blanket nearby for them to explore their world! Get them a book on butterfly identification and a pair of binoculars or a camera!

Fat Fluffy & Full Panicles Packed with Tiny White Flowers
Lovely Scented & Nectar Rich Pollinator Magnets!
Attracts Bees, Butterflies & Hummingbirds!
Gray-Green Foliage & Compact Branching
Pollinator Gardens, Cut Flower Gardens & Landscape Accents
Containers, En Masse, Beds & Borders

#ProPlantTips For Care

Buddleia Butterfly Bushes bloom best and have the strongest stems in full sun, so provide at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. Plant in almost any kind of well-drained, enriched soil with a 3-4 inch layer of mulch as topdressing. Then in the early spring before you see new growth, prune back your entire bush. This plant is like a woody perennial in colder zones it will die back, and should cut stems down in late winter or early spring before it starts to grow and all fresh new growth will develop from the roots. Deadhead to keep new blooms returning all growing season. Butterfly Bushes are rarely damaged by deer unless truly desperate!

Full Sun Is Best
Moderate to Lower, Yet Consistent Soil Moisture
Enriched, Very Well-Drained Soil & Appreciates Mulched Beds
Deadhead Often For Rebloom
Prune Back in Early Spring
Deer Seldom Bother It

The Butterfly Candy™ Lil' Coconut™ Butterfly Bush will bring creamy white delight to your pollinator gardens! Hurry and order all the new Butterfly Candy™ line of Buddleia from NatureHills.com today!