Product Description

Groovy Grape Butterfly Bush is a deciduous shrub with a rounded to upright habit and grey-green foliage.  Its fragrant, vivid deep violet flowers bloom on long upright panicles through summer and in fall if deadheaded, attracting bees and butterflies.  Best performance in sunny well-drained areas.  Good drought tolerance. Can be rejuvenated by cutting back to 1ft from the ground.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Low maintenance plant.  Tolerant of most soils, except wet ones. 

LANDSCAPE USES: Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Wildlife Gardens, Rock Gardens, Foundation Plantings, Hedges, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Verbena, Russian Sage, Daylily

IMAGES: Photos by First Editions, Groovy Grape™ Butterfly Bush

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

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