Common Name: Lo & Behold® 'Blue Chip Jr.' Butterfly Bush
Latin Name: Buddleia × 'Blue Chip Jr.'
Brand: Proven Winners® ColorChoice®
Description:
A refined improvement on the original ‘Blue Chip,’ Lo & Behold® 'Blue Chip Jr.' delivers earlier blooms, more vivid blue-purple flower spikes, and a smaller, tidier habit—perfect for modern gardens and containers. Its silver-green foliage and compact mounding shape make it an elegant addition to perennial beds, borders, and butterfly gardens. With fragrant flowers that attract pollinators all summer into fall, and no need for deadheading, it offers high-impact color with minimal care.
Care Tips:
Plant in full sun in well-drained soil. Water regularly during establishment. Prune in early spring to shape and encourage new blooms (flowers form on new wood). Once established, it is drought tolerant and deer-resistant. Fertilize annually in spring with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer.
Landscape Uses:
Borders, edging, groundcover, containers, pollinator gardens, mass plantings, low hedges, mixed perennial beds
Mature Height: 18"–30"
Mature Width: 20"–28"
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Cold Hardiness Zone: USDA Zones 5–9
Habit: Compact, mounded
Foliage: Silver-green, deciduous
Flower: Indigo-blue, fragrant, spiky blooms from early summer through fall
Soil pH: Slightly acidic to neutral (pH 6.0–7.0)
