Boy do I feel dumb. My husband & I have been watching this monarch eat our butterfly bush & didn't realize that we have a milkweed growing with our butterfly bush. I didn't plant it there! They are both in the same container. Of course the monarch is eating the milkweed, not the butterfly bush. Thanks everyone for responding to my post, I do feel dumb! Becky Image link:

I've had a ton of trouble with 'Lo & Behold Blue Chip' plants...especially in containers! Last year...I left them in their original container...died! Planted it in another container...died! Sun or no sun didn't matter. I bought another one this year & planted it in my flower bed & amended the soil so it wouldn't be too wet & it was doing fine until the house painters stepped on it! Now it is half dead! Good news is if it does die again...I bought it from a local nursery that has a 1 year guarantee! My MIL has had good luck with potted BF bushes but she has her's on a drip auto irrigation system! One of her's looked like it got rust but is now doing better! I've had a hard time here with them anywhere except in the ground! Don't know if this helps...but good luck! Lila

Boy do I feel dumb. My husband & I have been watching this monarch eat our butterfly bush & didn't realize that we have a milkweed growing with our butterfly bush. I didn't plant it there! They are both in the same container. Of course the monarch is eating the milkweed, not the butterfly bush. Thanks everyone for responding to my post, I do feel dumb! Becky I had to use a different forum to post my pictures: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/gardgal/msg081609166930.html http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/gardgal/msg081612448292.html

I will get out and snap pics later. I know I have 'Black Knight' in the butterfly garden although the flowers never seem quite as dark as they appear in the catalogs - it is always blooming in such hot direct sun, it seems to deepen toward the end of the season. That one is perhaps as tall as me - 66" or so. And then I have a very large white - it is tall well over my head at 7' I'd say I believe it is 'White Profusion'. I know for sure I bought 'Nanjo Blue' and for a time and it was lower growing although it seemed to get very wide and the flowers weren't very bright - I thought I transplanted it out to my island bed and that one is blue but it gets much taller now. Maybe I replaced it and forgot... The one that interests me a lot is 'Dartmoor' that gets clusters of flowers - I wonder if they all age at the same rate? This site shows the English Butterfly series that really are supposed to be compact. 'Peacock' looks very nice. And how about those variagated ones like 'Santana' - although it gets quite tall. I did have 'Honeycomb' at one time - it just never thrived for me like the others, may have been the location. Here's anice site located really close to where I lived in Akron, Ohio with a good selection... Here is a link that might be useful: Dayton Nursery Buddlea Varieties