{"id":38436,"date":"2024-09-24T23:44:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/?post_type=product&#038;p=38436"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:56:47","slug":"butterfly-bush-pale-officinalis-rooted-plant-quart","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/product\/butterfly-bush-pale-officinalis-rooted-plant-quart\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Bush, Pale (officinalis) rooted plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Buddleja officinalis<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>| Pale Butterfly Bush<\/p>\n<p>Pale Butterfly Bush, also known as Pole Butterfly Bush and Mi Meng Hua, is a deciduous to semi-evergreen early-spring flowering shrub endemic to west Hubei, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces in China. It was discovered in 1875 by a surgeon in the Russian army, and was introduced to western cultivation in 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Pale Butterfly Bush resembles very closely that of the more common and invasive <em>Buddleja davidii <\/em>with honey-scented, pale-purple, periwinkle to mauve-moonlight colored flower panicles that are a bit shorter and more conical. However, unlike B. davidii, B. officinalis is not fully frost hardy and benefits from a protected spot in the winter. Very rare in cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>Grows naturally on forest edges, cliffs, scrub and waste places, and thickets along riverbanks.<\/p>\n<p><em>B. officinalis<\/em> was accorded the Royal Horticultural Society&#8217;s Award of Merit in 1911 and the Award of Garden Merit in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Type: Perennial<\/p>\n<p>Sun exposure: Full sun<\/p>\n<p>Mature height: 10-12 ft<\/p>\n<p>Mature width: 6-8 ft<\/p>\n<p>Hardiness zones: 9-11<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p>The plant you will receive will be one of these plants or a similar one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note: We ship plants orders out on Mondays and Tuesdays only.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pale Butterfly Bush rooted plant (quart pot)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38442,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4602,4586,4616],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-38436","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-award-winners","product_cat-butterfly-bush-collection","product_cat-plant-starts","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","add-to-wishlist-before_image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/38436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=38436"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=38436"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=38436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}