Blue Butterfly Bush Clerodendrum Ugandense

shrub plant

well rooted, established, and currently growing in 1 gallon pot. It will be shipped without pot.

Blue Butterfly Bush - category Shrubs native to Kenya and Uganda. It also known as Oxford Bush, Cambridge Bush, Blue Glory-bower. Blue Butterfly Bush is an open and sprawling evergreen shrub that gets up to 10 feet tall and wide, but is easily kept much smaller.

It has opposite leaves that are egg shaped, strongly toothed and about 3" - 4" long. The inflorescence, borne at the ends of long arching branches, are panicles 4" - 10" long composed of individual flowers about 1" long, each with three pale blue lobes and one violet blue lobe.

The flowers look like little butterflies in two different shades of blue and are produced more or less continuously throughout the summer and fall.

Hardiness: USDA Zone 9 -11. Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade Light Shade. Moisture: Water freely in growth but reduce watering in winter. Propagation Methods: From Softwood cuttings. Usage: Use Blue Butterfly Bush as a small stand alone specimen or in a mixed border. Prune back this shrub as needed to keep it in check. Cut back the old wood to a pair of buds to improve flowering.

In areas that get frost, you can get the most consistent flowering year in and year out by growing Blue Butterfly Bush in a large pot that can be brought indoors when temperatures approach freezing.


so cute! the flower looks like fake little blue butterflies!

so ornamental!!