Pugster Pink^® Butterfly Bush Buddleia x

I bought a pink pugster in May 2023 and have been so very pleased with it. I planted it in a sunny spot above a retaining wall that overlooks a flower bed. It has bloomed continuously and attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. I have been deadheading it, and it is continues to put out lots of new blooms in mid September!! My daughter needed a compact blooming shrub for a container garden. When she saw my pink pugster, she went and got one, too.

I purchased two of these gorgeous plants last fall from a local garden center, they were a deep vivid pink and they smelled amazing, and I had the perfect spot flanking a set of stone stairs. The spots where I planted them are in are in full sun in the early part of the day, and dappled sun then shaded the rest. The one that is slightly more shaded started coming back very early, in late May, and is still blooming in Mid-August. The other one I thought had not survived, but then the first of July small sprouts started to emerge. What is interesting is, these new sprouts are not all coming up as Pugster pink. Of the 4 shoots that sprouted and came up, only one is "Pugster" and the rest are a more purple version. I have also had a few seedlings come up near the other one, and I thought these were supposed to be sterile! well they are not. I am still enjoying them but I do have to monitor the seedlings, transplant them (giving away to family). The reason I liked Pugster was its compact growth. However, what I am getting are about 3 times the height and don't have that wonderful fragrance that the one Pugster has. I am still glad I planted it, and in mid-August, they are both blooming now, though I planted them to flank a stairwell and to match, but they don't. One is still pink but the other is coming in all purple. Oh well, nature finds a way, as someone has said.