Pugster Blue® Butterfly Bush (Buddleia x)

High hopes but mixed results for this plant. Planted 10 of these as specified in two rows. All in full sun, all receive identical watering. Half have done well, grown and seem healthy with occasional blooms, half have really struggled, with yellow and brown leaves and are haven’t grown at all. Blooms on the healthy ones are wonderfully fragrant and pretty, but why such inconsistency in hardiness. One on the left is approx 18” diameter, one on right same size as when planted 6 months ago

Hasn’t had any blooms! List tge last oneI got from you! Hope this on lives??? Planted perfectly with some cedar mulch again

Plants arrived dry and I wasn’t sure that they would survive.

Healthy plants, good roots systems - small but i expected that for quart size. Well packaged

I cannot wait until next year when they bloom. I already had 3 before this and they have performed well. Butterflies and pollinators galore.

Plants were much smaller than expected, although 1 plant did have a bud getting ready to bloom.

All plants arrived in good shape and transplanted well despite unexpected Pennsylvania heat.

These arrived in horrible shape. It will be a miracle if they survive.

All the plants I’ve ordered from Proven Winners arrive healthy and strong and take off as soon as their put into the ground.

In great condition. Cant wait to see it bloom.

There was literally zero root growth on the plant that I received. It did experience some damage in shipping after I cut off the dead or dying part of the plant. I am left with a literal twig that will probably take 4 years to reach any decent size. So think twice before you order this plant.

Plants were shipped in timely manner. Arrived alive and have been planted. Anxious to see them in bloom during next growing season.

Completely satisfied with order. Thank you..

The bushes arrived promptly, incredibly packaged, and healthy. So pleased with proven winners. Will probably be ordering again soon. Their prices beat several of the local Home stores.

Very good. I've trimmed the blooms and it still seems to want to grow new ones.

I ordered and paid for 8 plants. I received 6 Pugsters.

I ordered and paid for 8 plants. I received 6 Pugsters.

I'm disappointed in the perennial shrubs I was sent. Every one of them was wilted and looked dead. I'm not sure any of them will make it. They were planted immediately so we'll see.
They were packaged well and didn't appear to have been damaged in the shipping process. I was just sent sad, subpar plants.

Still thriving!

One of my buddlea plants has died 3 days after planting in the ground. They arrived dry and broken. The others are fine and growing.

This plant came in severely damaged and almost dead.

This plant came in severely damaged and almost dead.

While pruning this summer, I noticed beautiful flowers and upon investigation, found my Pugster Blue growing ON TOP of the soil right where I'd plunked it after digging it out of the ground a couple of months before when redesigning my beds! I'd gotten sidetracked, left the exposed roots on top of the ground and it was producing nicely. This is one tough shrub! It was doing so well, I simply covered the exposed roots with compost and watched it live its best life the rest of this growing season.

Box was bashed in and plant/container had come loose from the “holder”. Shrub was upside down and appeared to have been that way since shipping started. Very disappointed and not like other half of order (in another container.

Arrived in good shape and are doing well thanks again proven winners

If I had known they were being shipped from the East Coast to California, I would not have ordered them. They arrived with all flowers brown and dead as well as some crispy leaves and seem root bound. What do I do now? Do I cut off the dead flowers and hope for the best?

All three plants arrived, but one was very wilted. I trimmed all three, planted, watered well and hopefully the third plant will recover. Otherwise happy with the other two plants.

I had previously purchased one pugster, and when it bloomed, it was so pretty. There were buds on it. when I got it. I thought I needed some more so I purchased four more which I planted in the ground the next day. Three are doing well. One of them appears to have, one whole section eaten up from some kind of caterpillar on it. I’m not sure if an egg was on it when I got it and it hatched. The other ones look healthy and fine. I’m hoping they grow up to look like the picture.