Buddleja davidii Lo and Behold Pink Micro Chip - Butterfly Bush

Buddleia 'Pink Micro Chip' (Lo & Behold®) is a new and unique variety of butterfly bush from the United States This miniature bush is a real gem for the terrace, but also a very pretty plant that integrates perfectly into perennial plant beds. With an unusual habit, as wide as it is tall, and a neat appearance, it is perfectly hardy and has the advantage of flowering earlier than its larger siblings, and until late in the season, in lovely mauve-pink spikes. It is a plant for small spaces, romantic terraces, rockeries, and sunny borders. It adapts to all ordinary and well-drained soils, even poor ones, but requires full sun to thrive.

This buddleia is the result of extensive hybridisation work between the species B. davidii, B. lindleyana, B. globosa and B. fallowiana. If you don't have a buddleia in your garden because of its invasive reputation, this variety is made for you! Indeed, Buddleia 'Pink Micro Chip', the smallest of the Lo & Behold® series, only reaches 55 cm (22 in) in all directions. It forms a small, prostrate shrub, with a unique, bristly, and rounded habit. Its growth is rapid. It has the advantage of being sterile and therefore does not spread by spontaneous sowing! It develops deciduous, opposite, ovate leaves, 6 to 7 cm (3 in) long, with a matt grey-green colour on the upper side, lighter on the underside, carried by upright and fairly rigid branches. From June to September-October, it bears slightly arched flower spikes, in a pinkish-mauve colour, with a red throat, 10 cm (4 in) long, whose scent attracts many butterflies.

'Pink Micro Chip' likes well-drained soils and sunny, not too windy locations. Remove faded flowers as they appear, only for aesthetic reasons if desired, and prune severely once a year, from March to April. There is no shortage of ideas to highlight this adorable and unusual buddleia, as beautiful in the ground as in a pot. It can be used as an isolated plant, in shrub beds, as a border, in rockeries, or as ground cover. It can be planted, for example, with shrubby potentillas, creeping ceanothus, shrubby veronicas, ground cover roses, shrubby or perennial salvias, daylilies, Peruvian lilies, and many other plants according to the tastes of each gardener.