butterfly bush

NOUN
  1. tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers
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How To Use butterfly bush In A Sentence

  • This past winter's cold took a heavy toll on various roses and butterfly bushes; it did in the rosemary, too.
  • I chose white Queen Anne's lace, pink cosmos, purple butterfly bush, and blue scabiosa. Suzy Bales: Too Much Zucchini
  • Vivid pink roses lead the eye through the border, while butterfly bush, Mexican sage, and penstemon add bursts of soft purple blooms here and there.
  • For shrubs and trees, try ash, barberry, box elder, bush cinquefoil, butterfly bush, cotoneaster, currants and gooseberries, euonymous, forsythia, lilac (though my deer love them), mahonia, and viburnum.
  • Summer- and fall-blooming shrubs include such plants as abelia, beautyberry, butterfly bush, rose of Sharon, crepe myrtle and summersweet.
  • But in the new boulevard garden -- which is one of the few parts of our yard that's not completely shady and not already occupied -- I planted two butterfly bushes, Russian sage, and a group of lavendar. Day in the Life of an Idiot
  • Tall phlox, asters, butterfly bushes gaillardia, salvias and good old annuals will have to do it. Clems, Roses and Good Things Coming To An End « Fairegarden
  • They come for the butterfly weed, lilacs, echinacea and anise hyssop, and especially for the white, lavender and pink butterfly bushes.
  • I like a lot of white, and I have a couple of small white oleanders and a white butterfly bush.
  • You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
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