Why Plant Asian Moon Butterfly Bush?
Exceptional beauty, stunning fragrance, and non-invasive - the Asian Moon Butterfly Bush is a fantastic addition to your landscape! In spring, dark green foliage emerges with a silvery underside to it. From there, it produces tall panicles of light purple blooms, decorated with a bright orange in the center. These blooms are stunning in their own right, offering a honey like fragrance that invites butterflies as well as other pollinators and even hummingbirds to galavant across your landscape!
The Asian Moon Butterfly Bush is a newer hybrid, created by Dr. Jon Linstrom of the University of Arkansas. His goal was to create a cultivar to combat the invasiveness of the original species. This was accomplished when the Asian Moon Butterfly Bush proved to be sterile - it does not produce seeds and blooms from June through late fall.
How to use Asian Moon Butterfly Bush in the landscape?
The Asian Moon Butterfly Bush offers a few outstanding and unique qualities, earning its place in your garden. First, let's touch on its invasiveness - or rather, its NONinvasiveness! The Asian Moon Butterfly Bush is sterile, so in other words, this shrub does not produce seeds that would cause it to spread. With this genetic abnormality, we are able to enjoy lavish blooms well into fall without disrupting the natural environment around us. These shrubs offer some serious adaptability to soil, thriving in almost all types as long as it drains well. Utilize this shrub in a multitude of garden designs such as cottage, rose, or obviously butterfly for stunning visuals. Plant this shrub as an accent around your home or grow a lovely border of fragrant lasting blooms.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 5-9
How To Plant Asian Moon Butterfly Bush
Thriving best in locations that offer full sun, the Asian Moon Butterfly Bush also offers some spectacular soil adaptability. No need to worry about how acidic or alkaline your soil is, or the composition of the soil itself. Heavy clay may be the only soil type that would cause some form of an issue, however, make sure you choose a site that offers decent drainage and you should be fine. Maintain a watering schedule until established, feed when necessary, and enjoy the beautiful blooms and the frequent flyers year in and year out!
How To Water
When freshly planted, be sure to water your Asian Moon Butterfly Bush deeply and well. You'll want to water once or twice a week, consistently, for the first growing season. After that, you can cut back to watering in periods of drought or high heat.
How To Fertilize
Fertilize your Asian Moon Butterfly Bush when first planted - we recommend the Bower & Branch Elements Starter Plant Food to be sure your Butterfly Bush has all it needs for a healthy growing season. Be sure to feed each spring, before your shrub breaks dormancy, to continue providing all your shrub needs!
How To Prune
Due to the speedy growth habit and height of the blooming stalks on the Asian Moon Butterfly Bush, you're going to have to give it a trim. In early spring, before the push of new growth, we recommend pruning for shape. Then again in midsummer, you may prune your Asian Moon Butterfly Bush to about 3’ from the ground, giving the incentive to grow more of these beautiful aromatic blooms!
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
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Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
