Cranrazz Butterfly Bush
Buddleia davidii ‘CranRazz’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Perennial Shrub
Height at Maturity: 5-6′ in ground, 3-4′ in containers
Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 3′ for solid hedges, 6′ for space between plants
Spacing: 3′ for solid hedges, 6′ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Arching, Bushy, Mounding
Growth Rate: Fast to Very Fast
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
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-drained moist to dry
Soil pH: 5.5 – 8.5 (Acid to Moderately Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low to Average
Attracts: Visual Attention, Birds, Butterflies, Hummingbirds
Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect, Rabbit
Description
Not a true dwarf but Cranrazz Butterfly Bush has grown to about 5 to 6 feet tall and wide in our gardens, putting it at about two-thirds the size of standard, tall butterfly bush. You will love the show stopping, bright cranberry-red flowers on this one that are up to 8 inches in length and come all summer long to frost. The butterflies and hummingbirds will love them too. The flowers have a wonderful fruity fragrance. As with all butterfly bush, this one is drought tolerant when established and deer turn their nose up to it.
Landscape & Garden Uses
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
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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.
Growing Preferences
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.
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to get helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Butterfly Bushes.
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My butterfly bush was extremely well packaged and arrived quickly and in great shape. I planted it immediately and both are doing quite well. I will buy from them again.———————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I have never been so excited about ordering plants; this was my first experience and it did not disappoint. The pictures on your Website are gorgeous and my expectations were high. You did NOT disappoint.
My plants arrived perfectly – the butterfly bush was incredibly healthy with tiny cranberry blooms already popping! – I planted immediately and check on them daily!
It’s a constant source of happy conversation in my life. I also thoroughly enjoy your e-mails, looking at every plant and thinking about where I can add something else. I look forward to my next order!——————————————————————-Thanks so much for the photo! We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words and awesome review! Beth | WBG 🙂
My plants arrived perfectly – the butterfly bush was incredibly healthy with tiny cranberry blooms already popping! – I planted immediately and check on them daily!
It’s a constant source of happy conversation in my life. I also thoroughly enjoy your e-mails, looking at every plant and thinking about where I can add something else. I look forward to my next order!——————————————————————-Thanks so much for the photo! We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words and awesome review! Beth | WBG 🙂
These butterfly bushes arrived in good condition. They were pretty plants and were well packaged. One was planted into a large pot and already has a bloom on it. The other will be planted in the ground very soon. I’ve moved these plants indoors and back out several times because of the colder weather we’ve had. Both were very healthy plants; they are thriving and growing.——————————————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Very happy with our bush. Arrived well protected in the box and in good shape. It has been in the ground for a while and showing signs of growth.————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I ordered a 1 gal. Cranrass butterfly bush. It was a little beat up when it got here, but what do you expect,when you order in july.. it was packed great, as usual. I cut the few beat up leaves and pruned off a couple of banged up limbs transplanted it in a 3 gal. pot, gave it a shot of vitamin B. In 3 days I had new growth,and buds. It will be ready to put in the ground soon. If you want a large butterfly bush, the 3 gal is wonderful. I now have ordered 5 plants from Wilson all of them in GREAT CONDITION. I have never had plants in this great shape when they arrive. Thank you Wilson brothers , I now have a wonderful humming bird, butterfly haven in my yard. I highly recomend Wilson brothers ,spend the money. They have free shipping, with people who know how to ship. Thanks Wilson brothers.————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
The plant arrived in great shape, already in bloom, in the best packaging that I have ever seen for plant material.——————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Received my 2 butterfly plants in great health and at a faster than expected delivery time. They are now full of flowers and my hummingbirds love them! I will definitely be a repeat customer!———————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review and the kind words! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Plant arrived looking good & healthy; blooming beautifully after 2 wks.——————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Healthy, well rooted, full of blooms and as always securely packed!—————————WBG Reply: Hi Connie, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Cranrazz Butterfly Bush. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens
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