I'd been wanting to try this cultivar for years, so I was very excited to find a gallon-sized plant locally last spring. I planted it in full sun and it grew well. However, this has proved to be a very disappointing cultivar for me. In two years, I've only seen the bicolor coloration once. The majority of the time it's just a muddy, light-mauve color and that's only when it decides to eke out a few blooms. Also, when it does manage to bloom, it never gets a pretty spire of blooms because the individual flowers seem to quickly go from bud to dead and brown. It results in an ugly spire with the fresh flowers mixed in with the dead blooms. My other butterfly bush cultivars are floriferous all summer and have attractive spires of blooms. Meanwhile, the 'Bicolor' just looks weedy and sad.

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