{"id":39722,"date":"2025-02-09T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:52:13","slug":"butterfly-bush-pale-b-officinalis","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/product\/butterfly-bush-pale-b-officinalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Bush, Pale (B. officinalis)"},"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 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 closely resembles that of the more common Orange-Eye Butterfly Bush (<em>Buddleja davidii) having<\/em> honey-scented, pale-purple periwinkle to mauve-moonlight colored flower panicles that are a bit shorter and more conical in shape. Blooms for many months. However, unlike <em>B. davidii, B. officinalis<\/em> 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>50 seeds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38442,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2602,4596,4586,4604,4599,4669,2600,4642,4085],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-39722","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all-seeds","product_cat-aromatic","product_cat-butterfly-bush-collection","product_cat-deer-resistant","product_cat-flowers","product_cat-new-returning","product_cat-perennial-flower-seeds","product_cat-seeds","product_cat-shrub-seeds","first","instock","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\/39722","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=39722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=39722"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=39722"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athousandflowers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=39722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}