Yellow Butterfly Bush

These Buddleias with yellow to orange flowers are much less common than the classic Buddleia davidii, appreciated for its summer flowering in white, mauve or pink. These are original, radiant, fragrant, nectar-rich and easy to grow bushes, although not always very hardy. The most well-known is Buddleia x weyeriana 'Sungold' with yellow-orange ball-shaped flowers from July to October. Also much appreciated is the 'Golden Glow' butterfly bush, whose yellow-orange flowering is often washed with purple. Less common in cultivation, Buddleia x weyetiana 'Moonlight' charms with its cream-yellow flowers with orange hearts and mauve tints. All these hybrids have a very specific flower shape, hesitating between an ear and a sphere. They owe this to one of their parents, the Buddleia globosa, a South American species that produces perfect spheres of bright golden orange. Cultivated primarily for its remarkable foliage, with a velvety texture and a greyish colour, the hybrid 'Sliver Anniversary' has small cream-white flowers with a yellow heart, tone on tone, from July to October. One of the most unusual is Buddleia glomerata 'Silver Service'. Of modest size, this bush has curious undulating evergreen leaves and produces vaporous panicles of pale yellow flowers in spring.

Butterfly Bushes, truly graceful and accommodating, are used in isolation, grouped in beds, placed in hedges, or even grown in pots for dwarf varieties. They offer beautiful diversity in terms of colours and foliage, allowing them to be associated with all the flowering shrubs in the garden.