Customer Reviews for PROVEN WINNERS 1 Gal. Lo and Behold 'Blue Chip Jr.' Butterfly Bush (Buddleia) Live Shrub, Blue-Purple Flowers

Two of the four plants look healthy and ready to go. The other two should not have left the nursery. One attached leaf between them and its not like the fell off in transit I found just a few loose ones in the container. Terrible cost to benefit ratio.

Planted two of these in fifferen5 locations. They both died.

Boy, no comparison between what I received and the pic on the website! Puny little plant. Disappointed!

I made the mistake of looking at this beautiful plant in the photo. These are tiny little plants for the price. Really Home Depot?

Plant totally dried out. Bad customer service

I have been very pleased with everything I've gotten from Proven Winners so far! Only had this bush in the pot for about 2 weeks, but it appears to be thriving! It is starting to flower now. Looks like it is going to be very fast grower too.

Full sun with water 2-3 x a week and you have a beautiful bush in 6 weeks. This is facing south in Los Angeles, so sun is strong 8 hours a daym

I was surprised and happy to see HOW quick this beautiful Butterfly plant "put on flowers" as it was SO young and SO little, BUT, "Proven Winner" flowers always brighten my HOME!!

As much as I love the convenience of ordering online and ship to home.. these 3 plant purchases were an extreme disappointment. I have ordered plants this way previously and they showed up beautifully green and in bloom.. These did not.. hoping to get my money back, about 60.00 worth of mostly dead, dried up plants.

I ordered two plants and they arrived healthy. Even though we were in the middle of a heatwave the plants were well watered and well packed prior to leaving the nursery as they arrived and the soil was not dry and the plants were healthy and some branches still had blooms. The plants were also a proper size— not small or anything.

Terrible plants. Had to return.

Shipping was excellent. The product arrived on time and was packaged well. The shipping container was intact. Shipment timing was perfect. I have attached a picture of what arrived, the same day it arrived, for your review.

I sent in a complaint. My product has dried and shriveled up.

The description did not match the product. What I ordered were 2 bushes/scrubs and what I received were 2 samplings.

The plant size was bigger than I thought it would be, which is great for me. It is healthy and seems to be thriving where I planted it and is just starting to have some blossoms. Very pleased with this purchase!

They seem okay, but I would opt for the larger size of this plant!

Butterfly plant arrived in a secure box. Inside the box was a potted plant. The potting soil around the plant was dryer than what would come out of a freshly opened bag of potting soil and the plants leaves were wilted. I immediately watered the plant and let it set overnight to absorb the water. Hoping that the leaves would recover. The next morning I planted it in a pot, set up the drip line and hoped that it would survive. I checked the moisture in the soil daily. A week later, it is surviving. I trimmed off the dead branches, dead flowers and dead leaves so that the new leaves could get all the sunshine the plant needs to survive. It doesn't look like the full plant in the picture, but it is trying by putting out new buds that should be in flower soon. Hopefully it will fill out and look like the picture.

The 1 gal. Lo and Behold Blue Chip Jr. ColorChoice Buddleia Butterfly Bush Shrub arrived extremely well packaged in a box on my doorstep. The plant unpacked easily and was healthy upon arrival. I immediately transplanted the plant from it's container and have been monitoring it's health for the past few weeks. The plant has yet to bloom but is still in excellent health. The plant foliage and branches are about 12 to 14 inches around.

I love to garden, so I was very excited to receive this bush. It came well packaged in a well ventilated card board box that kept it protected during shipping. I popped it out of the container and immediately watered it. Now, it is planted and growing quickly with all the rain that we have had. It is too early for it to flower, but I have attached a photo of what it will look like in a few short months. And... it came from Michigan. How can you go wrong?!

Amazing shape this plant was in when I got it. It came shipped and I never imagined they could do it so well. It came well packaged and ready to plant in the ground. All I had to do was give it some water when I got it out of the box and it is growing away! In fact, I have it sitting in the back yard still in the pot for the past 2 weeks! As the wife has not given instructions on where to plant it. It is growing wonderfully and with the wet spring we are getting I don't even have to water it, hehe....

Very pleased with this product. The plant was delivered in a carton box with some clever designed holes. It is a good size bush shrub. Leaves are very green and the soil was still fairly moist. Good looking shrub, no flowers yet, although some buds are there. Impatient to see the plant blooming! Highly recommend this vendor: plants seem well treated, and I will definitively order through them again.

This plant came fairly well packed. The ends of two side branches broke in transit, but they were small. This plant is 16" tall and about 12" across. Since this grows to 20" to 28", the plant is halfway there. The plant was a little on the dry side when arrived, but not wilted. There were no growing instructions included which would be nice. Though I guess you can find the information on the internet. Just received this plant last week and it is already putting out new growth. Can't wait to see the blooms.

This plant was shipped in a specially designed box with air holes on all sides, and an inner supporting cardboard frame so the pot didn't move around inside the box. As well, there was a cardboard collar around the base of the plant at the top of the pot to keep as much of the soil in the pot as possible. This was relatively successful but it was evident the box had not been kept upright during shipping as about half of the soil was in the bottom of the shipping box instead of in the pot. There was no tag or card with this plant so I had to go online to find out whether it needed to be planted in the sun, part sun, or shade; how much water it likes; how long it will flower and so forth. That information would have been useful if it had been included with the plant. The plant itself has excellent foliage and looks extremely healthy despite being a little dried out from shipping. The root system is very well developed and now that I've re-potted it into it's permanent container I am very optimistic that with a couple of weeks of sun and water, I'll have some beautiful flowers that will make the butterflies in my backyard very happy indeed. The only reason I chose a rating of Good instead of Excellent for the Value was that at nearly $30.00 this is a somewhat expensive plant for a 1 gallon size.

Doesn't look like a beautiful plant yet...but it just arrived (very well-packaged by the way) and now planted in our front planter along with another pink Bubbleia plant that I bought along with it. My first experience with these types of bushes. Drought and heat resistant and full or half sun is what I was looking for. I await blooms and maybe butterflies later!

It's too early to tell how well this beauty will do in our climate (zone 6), but I am excited that it arrived in a non-dormant state. Minus the fact that the bush had obviously been handled roughly (see picture), it was still in very good condition - especially considering almost half of the dirt was not longer in the container but at the bottom of the box. Being a high elevation desert area, I always look for plants that are drought-tolerant, can stand full sun as well as attract pollinators. Would be nice if more products like this were available in stores.

I paid a little over $160 for 5 of these plants. I received them yesterday. When I opened the boxes, every one of them was dumped out of the pots, dirt was everywhere, and limbs were broken off in the box. They only had tiny root balls left as most of the roots were torn off & left in the bottom of the pots or in the dirt in the box. I am very disappointed. I put them back into the pots with dirt & put them in my greenhouse...I just hope they make it..The shipping was free but I would have gladly paid for shipping if they had arrived in better condition. I suggest if you want one of these plants, you go & pick them up yourself if they are available. (In the picture of the plant, I have already put dirt back into the bottom of the pot & placed the plant on top,but hadn't filled in the rest of the dirt).

Alot of care was taken to ship this plant. I was very surprised at how big and full it is. It was shipped very fast and the company even called ahead to make sure I understood it would be dormant but is healthy and will bloom into a beautiful plant. I have to say it certainly is healthy and was packaged very securely. Great customer service! I cannot wait to plant in my yard as soon as Spring is here!

Was delayed several times during shipping and arrived, dried and dead. Difficulty getting in touch with customer service would like a refund or Store credit.

These were extremely small, the flowers were all black and dead, I don't anticipate any of these plants will survive. Better to go to store and purchase.