I love my butterfly bush!
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
June 18, 2017 2:59pm CST
When we had the landscaping done 3 1/2 years ago I asked for a pink butterfly bush, that was at the top of my list. I told the landscaper I wanted it planted where I could see it from the living room windows.
Since I was battling sciatica at the time I couldn't get outside to 'supervise'. Since all the plants were young and small I couldn't tell one from the other from the window. In the spring when the butterfly bush started leaving out I realized he planted it in front of the guest room window, not where I had told him to plant it.
Well, as you can see from the size of it, he probably did me a favor planting it in the wrong place! If it had been where I wanted it (in front of the railing) by now it would have totally blocked my view!
Sometimes mistakes aren't really mistakes at all!
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Jun 17
that reminds me of a house we looked at years aog lookiiig to rent but it had bushes and vines at every window so instead it was
\eerie and sort of scary, musty I said no we do not want this yet my hubby had liked it. If all hat stuff concealing the windows had'been trimmed back they could have rented that house in
a flash.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Jun 17
That is in front of the guest room which also have one of those half moon windows above the regular windows...Lots of light. A dark house can be remedied!
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
19 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill Our landscapers planted several bushes that I did not ask, we still lived in France and came to check once a month. When we finally moved here, I have removed some and planted what I wanted.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
19 Jun 17
Very true...he did make a lot of other mistakes - like buying two trees that he was to plant, calling and asking for the money for them but that he couldn't plant for a few days and then he never came back - we had to hire another person to plant them.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
19 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill That's great - I get mainly Red Admirals in my garden.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
19 Jun 17
@jaboUK I don't know the varieties of butterflies
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
19 Jun 17
I am glad it worked out! And it really is very pretty!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
19 Jun 17
Thanks...now I wish I had a few more put in - in front of the garage....but the spaces are now taken.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
20 Jun 17
@Jessicalynnt No, we have all TN River Rock instead of dirt/mulch and we have enough bushes that stay green in winter, so we don't need to add more.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill nowhere else they could go?
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@LeaPea2417 (40032)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Jun 17
That was a good mistake he made. It looks real nice.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
20 Jun 17
It really looks pretty right where it is @AbbyGreenhill Guess that is where it is supposed to live.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
18 Jun 17
That's a beautiful plant! I haven't head of that.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Jun 17
The are very popular in our part of the south.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
19 Jun 17
And since we are so far off the road, now that its big you can see it a good distance.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Jun 17
@AbbyGreenhill That's great. Does it attract a lot of butterflies?
@JESSY3236 (22245)
• United States
20 Jun 17
pretty. I was wanting to get one, but I ended getting zinnias asters and snap dragons instead.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
20 Jun 17
This comes back every year so it was worth getting it and I wanted it to be seen from the road. I love snap dragons - Dolly Parton's aunt gave me seeds one year.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Jun 17
Yes it will bloom till fall....Blooms get smaller later in the season
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Jun 17
Does the bush attract much wildlife like birds?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Jun 17
Only hummingbirds....Not sure they really get anything!
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
21 Jun 17
I too think the plant works where it is even if it was a mistake originally--
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
21 Jun 17
it's lovely... I'd be sat at it for hours trying to get butterfly photos lol...
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