USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone 

Plant Type:  Perennial Shrub

Flower Color:  Cranberry Red

Flower Size: 4-5" long clusters

Flowering Period:  June to Frost!

Flower Type:  Spike

Fragrant Flowers:  Yes

Foliage Color:  Grey-Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Birds, Butterflies, Hummingbirds

Resistances:  Deer - more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect, Rabbit

We have Cranrazz growing in both garden beds and pots in our landscape. In the ground, it's 5-6 foot height and 3-4 feet wide, make it an ideal choice for smaller garden spaces, where larger growing butterfly bush won't fit. In containers it doesn't grow quite as large. That said, we'd recommend a larger pot of at least 15 inches or more in diameter. Ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or massed in landscape borders, flowering shrub borders and perennial gardens. A natural choice for butterfly and hummingbird gardens, Xeriscape gardens (low water needs, and blue-themed color gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  3' for solid hedges or mass plantings; 6-7' or more for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Butterfly Bushes is not reliably winter hardy, you'll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Cranrazz Butterfly Bush is exceptionally easy to grow. It thrives in full to mostly sun and isn't too picky about soil type, provided the soil is well-drained and of average fertility. At least 6 hours of direct sun per day is recommended for best flowering. As with so many other plants, constantly soggy or wet soils can cause problems with the roots.

Click on a link below to get helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Butterfly Bushes.

How To Plant & Care For Butterfly Bushes 

Planning a Butterfly Garden 

Butterfly Garden Design & Planting Tips