Butterfly Candy™ Lil’ Grape™ Butterfly Bush
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Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Shipping
To obtain a more accurate shipment time-frame, simply enter your zip code in the “Find Your Growing Zone” box to the right. Our plants are grown all over the country and lead time on items may be different because of this. Once your order is placed, you will also receive the specific shipment time-frame information as part of your order confirmation. Once an item ships, you will receive shipment notification and tracking numbers, so you can follow along while your plant travels to your doorstep. We use FedEx, UPS, or USPS at our discretion.
Due to winter weather we have put a hold on shipping to the areas shown below in grey. You can still order now and we will ship the plant to you during an appropriate time for your zone.
Standard Shipping Rates
At Nature Hills we handle, package and ship the products you order with the utmost care to ensure healthy delivery. Shipping and handling charges are calculated based on the tables below. Please note that some items include an additional handling surcharge, these will be noted on the item's product page.
| From | To | S&H |
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| $0 | $19.99 | $24.99 |
| $20 | $49.99 | $29.99 |
| $50 | $69.99 | $34.99 |
| $70 | $99.99 | $39.99 |
| $100 | $129.99 | $44.99 |
| $130 | $149.99 | $48.99 |
| $150 | $150+ | Approx 28% |
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Buying Options for Plants
Nature Hills sells a large variety of plants with several options available. Plants are offered in both potted containers and as dormant bare root without soil. Here is a helpful resource to understand your options as you create a beautiful landscape with help from Nature Hills.
Ever wonder what a larger plant will mean for your landscape? Container Sizes are really all about the age of the plant!
Seasonally, Nature Hills offers hand selected, high quality bare root trees, shrubs and perennials. Bare root plants are sold by height from the top of the root system to the top of the plant. Plants may be taller than the height minimums.
- Popular sizes of select trees are 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, etc.
- Popular sizes of select bare root plants is 1 foot, 18 inches, etc.
Nature Hills Container Size by Volume
Keep in mind, specific varieties and different growing conditions can affect the rate at which plants grow. Variations in size may occur.
| Young Plants to 18 Months | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| 2"x2"x3" | Ranges from | .18 to .21 dry quarts / .198 to .23 dry liters in volume |
| 4.5" Container | Equal to | .65 dry quart / .72 dry liter in volume |
| Sprinter Pot | Equal to | .63 dry quart / .69 dry liter in volume |
| 4" Container | Ranges from | .31 to .87 / .35 to .96 dry liter in volume |
| 6" Container | Equal to | 1.4 dry quarts / 1.59 dry liters in volume |
| 1 Quart | Equal to | 1 dry quart / 1.1 dry liter in volume |
| 5.5" Container | Equal to | 1.89 of a dry quart / 2.08 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x5" | Ranges from | .8 to 1.1 dry quarts / .88 to 1.2 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x6" | Ranges from | 1.0 to 1.3 dry quarts / 1.1 to 1.41 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x9" | Ranges from | 1.1 to 2.1 dry quarts / 1.2 to 2.3 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x10" | Ranges from | 1.7 to 2.3 dry quart / 1.87 to 2.53 dry liters in volume |
| Plants 18 Months - 2.5 Years Old | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| 2 Quart | Equal to | 2 dry quarts / 2.2 dry liters in volume |
| #1 Container | Ranges from | 2.26 to 3.73 dry quarts / 2.49 to 4.11 dry liters in volume |
| 5"x5"x12" | Equal to | 3.5 to 4.3 dry quarts / 3.85 to 4.74 dry liters in volume |
| Plants 2 - 4 Years Old | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| #2 Container | Ranges from | 1.19 to 1.76 dry gallons / 5.24 to 7.75 dry liters in volume |
| #3 Container | Ranges from | 2.32 to 2.76 dry gallons / 10.22 to 12.16 dry liters in volume |
| Plants 3 - 5 Years Old | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| #5 Container | Ranges from | 2.92 to 4.62 dry gallons / 12.86 to 20.35 dry liters in volume |
| #6 Container | Ranges from | 5.25 to 6.01 dry gallons / 23.12 to 26.42 dry liters in volume |
| #7 Container | Ranges from | 5.98 to 6.08 dry gallons / 26.34 to 26.78 dry liters in volume |
Plant Highlights
Butterfly Candy™ Lil’ Grape™ Butterfly Bush highlights at a glance!
Plant Highlights
Plant Highlights
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Brand
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Botanical Name
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Growing Zones
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Mature Height
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Mature Spread
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Sun ExposureFull Sun
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Moisture
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Soil
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Growth RateMedium
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Pollinator Friendly
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Fragrant
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Pruning Time
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Bloom PeriodLate Spring, Summer, Fall
Growing Zones 5-10
The all-new Butterfly Candy™ Lil' Grape™ Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii 'BotEx 001') is just the juicy and fruity treat your garden needs for saturated, almost two-tone butterfly-friendly blooms! Tightly packed panicles are sweet-scented and vibrant deep purple with a violet eye in the center of each tiny little blossom that makes up each fluffy spire!
Growing upright from the top of each of the many, compact and densely branched stems, this Buddleia is a space-saving delight that acts like a beacon for every butterfly, bee, and hummingbird in your neighborhood looking for a nectar-rich treat! This new Butterfly Candy™ line of Buddleia is wonderfully compact and grows just 2-3 feet in height and width, and is packed full of sagey, gray-green foliage all growing season long!
These compact and easy-to-grow Buddleia are perfect gifts and are Kid-friendly! Everyone will enjoy watching as Lil' Grape™ attracts tons of beneficial insects! Include a pair of garden gloves, a book on butterfly identification, and a pair of binoculars to go with your thoughtful gift that attracts biodiversity!
Planting and Application:
Any garden becomes a pollinator garden with ease! Wonderful juicy hues these vibrant accents light up any part of the sunny landscape! Amp up front garden beds and borders, or back patios - kicking the curb appeal up in all garden styles and working into landscapes of all sizes! Space-saving enough for Container gardeners and porch planters, these lovely blooms catch the eye on a sunny front porch!
Butterfly Candy™ Butterfly Bushes are must-have eye candy for you and are a vital food source for your Pollinators! Your winged visitors and beneficial pollinators, plus your kitchen table will all benefit from these lovely spires! They look lovely in Cutting Gardens and smell just as sweet as they look! Turn any Perennial border, mixed-shrub hedge into a spectacle with a facer planting or groupings of Lil' Grape™! Transform your boring cottage garden, enhance a Rock garden, or add 3 seasons of purple blossoms to perennial borders!
The floriferous blooms keep returning for your pollinators and cut flower arrangements as fast as you can keep them deadheaded. Take out a bit of lawn and add a berm, a hummingbird feeder, a birdbath, and a garden bench! You have front-row seats to a show all growing season until frost! They are also easy-care enough to create en masse drifts of vibrant all-growing season color! Fill your landscape with these hardy, versatile, blooms and butterflies!
- Fluffy & Full Panicles in Juicy Purple & Violet!
- Sweetly Scented Densely Packed With Tiny Flowers
- Nectar-Rich - Attracts Pollinators & Hummingbirds!
- Gray-Green Foliage & Compact Dense Branching
- Butterfly Gardens, Cut Flower Borders & 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!
Acting as 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 start sooner in warmer zones where Lil' Grape™ blooms in late spring, through summer, and continue into fall! Lil' Grape™ is hardy throughout chilly USDA growing zones 5 to warm zone 10!
- Full Sun For The Most Blooms
- 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
All-new Butterfly Candy™ Lil' Grape™ Butterfly Bush adds saturated purple and violet puffy blooms to your garden and sweet treats for your pollinators! Hurry and order one of every new Butterfly Candy™ Buddleia from NatureHills.com today!
