Buddleja 'White Profusion'

• common names: butterfly bush
• flowering season: summer into fall
• height: 8 to 10 feet
• Light requirements: full sun
• Soil requirements: average, well drained
• Water requirments: average
• Growth habit: grows into a large bush
• How to propagate: tip cuttings in early summer or fall
• Leaf type: 4 to 6-inch long blades
• Ways to use it: easily grown in the sunny garden; the flowering stems make a very nice bouquet for the house, although not terribly long lasting nor tidy -- but their rich fragrance is nice to bring indoors
• Special characteristics: very attractive to bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
• Other points of interests: butterly bushes are not evergreen so they are not the best plant to use as a privacy hedge, but otherwise, several planted together would make a nice, quickly gowing large hedge

If you ever need to cut it back severely, our advice would be to do it in two stages instead of all at once. This will insure that it survives, rather than being shocked too much and possibly dying. The first stage would be cutting back half of its old wood back severely and only cutting the rest of its branches lightly, maybe only by half. When the hardest cut branches start to resprout, the rest of the plant can be cut back severely, either later the same year, or what might be better is waiting until the following spring for the second cut.