Buddleia 'Berries and Cream'
- Proven to attract more butterflies that any other variety!
- Stunning, long arching flowerheads smothered in hundreds of tiny magenta-pink and white florets with golden throats.
- Incredibly free flowering from July to September, looking like no other Buddleia.
- Wonderful for attracting wildlife into your garden and ideal at the back of a border.
- Supplied as an established plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant, growing to a height of 2.5m (8ft) and width of 1.5m (5ft).
Product Description
A Splendid tall, erect shrub, Buddleia davidii ‘Berries and Cream’ is an exciting new take on the traditional purple or white varieties that we’re all used to seeing.
With its long, arching conical summer flowerheads that grow to 20cm (8in) long covered in hundreds or tiny, yellow throated magenta-pink and white florets, ‘Berries and Cream’ is instantly striking and unlike any other Buddleia, a real talking point!
Exceptionally free flowering from July to September, it’ll be irresistible to bees and butterflies. In fact, during six years of trials by its expert breeder, Peter Moore, it attracted more butterflies than any other cultivar, great news for wildlife and even more reason to plant ‘Berries and Cream’ in your garden!
Extremely hardy, ‘Berries and Cream’ will thrive in full sun or partial shade in any well drained soil. It can be grown in a pot, which will limit its size, and is an impressive plant for the back of a border. Already a prolific flowerer, deadheading will encourage even more.
A deciduous shrub, in autumn the foliage turns to warm shades of orange and yellow before falling.
Supplied as an established plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant, growing to a height of 2.5m (8ft) and width of 1.5m (5ft).
What Is Supplied
Plant Information
Top Tips
- Buddleia plants are low maintenance, but they do benefit from pruning in early spring to maintain a nice compact plant.
Care Guide
- To plant, firstly water your potted plant well.
- Dig a hole a little deeper and 3 x wider than the nursery pot.
- Remove the plant from its pot and tease out some of the roots.
- Place your plant in the hole at the same level at the pot then refill the hole with the earth removed.
- Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball and water well before adding a mulch around the base of the plant.
- Water well until established.
- Plant Buddleia in garden borders in any moist, well drained garden soil, in full sun or semi-shade.
- 'Berries and Cream’ can also be grown in large patio container using soil-based compost such as John Innes No.3.
- Prune Buddleja hard in March, once the hardest frosts are over, as the new growth begins to show. Firstly, remove any dead, diseased, damaged, or weak stems, before pruning all off the remaining stems back to form a low framework.
- Drought tolerant once established.
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