Specialty Gardening: Can I grow a butterfly bush in a container?, 1 by UniQueTreasures

UniQueTreasures wrote:
Last year, Lowe's had a whole bunch of butterfly plants on the "rescue me" aisle. Most of them I paid 25 cents to 50 cents for. I already had the butterfly bush. I decided to make good use of a pond form I had laying around that I picked up at a garage sale for $2.00. I wanted a butterfly garden that I didn't have to worry about pulling weeds from. I planted all of the rescue me plants around the butterfly bush. I didn't cover this container at all over the winter. This was taken about the end of May. The only thing I added this year was the love lies bleeding amaranthus in the front. Everything else just came back like gangbusters. By keeping everything contained within the pond, I have not pulled ONE weed from this garden this year.