A sad name for one of the most beautiful plants you will ever grow. Formerly classed as a species of Eupatorium, this evergreen shrub produces fragrant, springtime clouds of lilac-purple pom-poms. It has large, textured, deep green foliage. Read more about Bartlettina sordida
‘Lisan’ is a more compact, shorter growing Bistorta than the well-known ‘Taurus’. It produces countless thin spikes of deep pink flowers held well above dense clumps of large handsome leaves. Whilst quite tough, it needs some supplementary watering during dry periods. Read more about Bistorta amplexicaulis ‘Lisan’
Brachyglottis ‘Sunshine’ is one of the most handsome evergreen shrubs for the dry garden. It makes a neat 90 by 120cm mound clothed with large, leathery grey foliage and during late spring and early summer carries multiple heads of lovely lemon-yellow daisies. Read more about Brachyglottis ‘Sunshine’
David S. Stuart in his monograph on the genus wrote that ‘Lochinch’ was one of his favourite varieties. This hybrid popped up in the garden of the Earl of Stair at Lochinch in Wigtownshire, Scotland during the Second World War. Read more about Buddleja ‘Lochinch’
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A Dutch raised cross between Buddleja davidii var. magnifica and Buddleja globosa which was selected for its richer colour. Large shrub with arching lance shaped leaves, golden flowers in large dense panicles. Very hardy. Full sun/part shade. Read more about Buddleja ‘Sungold’
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This species form features rich green leaves and is still enormously generous with its arching sprays of mauve flowers. Like the silver leaf form it can be kept to about 2 metres by 2 metres if cut back hard after flowering otherwise it will get much larger. Read more about Buddleja alternifolia
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This silver leaved butterfly bush is a gorgeous selection of Buddleja alternifolia having leaves covered by silky hairs which gives the plant its silvery appearance. It’s perhaps best grown as a standard to show its graceful weeping habit to the greatest advantage. Read more about Buddleja alternifolia ‘Argentea’
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Buddleja ‘Hot Raspberry’ is easy to grow both in the garden and in pots. It is one of a new breed of Buddlejas which are diminutive enough to find a place in even quite small gardens. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Hot Raspberry’
This the clearest pink flowered of all the Buddlejas with the largest of flower heads. Very large trusses of butterfly attracting pink flowers are carried over a long season. A bonus are the handsome grey leaves. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Pink Delight’
Huge branching heads of rich lilac pink flowers are produced late in the season on a medium sized well branched shrub. We cut it back to about 90cm in late winter or early spring. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Dartmoor’
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Flowering here in our Dry Garden in the latter part of October, the Chinese Butterfly Bush is endemic to upper Burma and western China, including Tibet, Buddleja myriantha is evergreen with felted grey green leaves and carrying its deep mauve, fragrant flowers on upright spike Read more about Buddleja myriantha
This beautiful, drought tolerant shrub is grown as much for its handsome foliage as for its flowers, pretty though they are. In our dry climate garden, it has made an upright shrub some 400cm x 300cm. Read more about Buddleja crispa
This hybrid between B. ‘Lochinch’ and B. ‘Black Knight’ is a chance seedling which cropped up in our garden a decade or more ago. It has the dark violet flowers of ‘Black Knight’ and the neat habit of ‘Lochinch’. Read more about Buddleja ‘Ascot Violet’
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“The handsomest of all the Himalayan shrubs” Sir Joseph Hooker. I’ve grown this, the largest flowered of all the Buddlejas for 20 or 30 years. It flowers quite easily on wood from the previous seasons growth. Read more about Buddleja colvilei
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Native to China and Japan Buddleja lindleyana has graceful weeping 50cm long flower panicles. The individual flowers, large for the genus, have pale lavender exteriors and rich purple interiors. This Buddleja flowers on new wood so pruning can be done in winter. Read more about Buddleja lindleyana
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Bred for its smaller size and long pendant flowers, the bee and butterfly attracting flowers are produced from November through to April as long as spent flowers are removed.Suited to growing in pots as well as small gardens. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Wisteria Lane ’ PBR
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This species is native to Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Northern India, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam. It generally grows into a small tree. ‘Fansipan’ is a dwarf selection found growing on the tallest mountain in Indochina, Phan Xi Pang. Read more about Buddleja macrostachya ‘Fansipan’
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The Nanho race of buddlejas are naturally small growing and so are useful in tight spaces. We’ve been growing Buddleja ‘Nanho Plum’ in a corner of our double flower borders for at least 10 years. Read more about Buddleja nanhoensis ‘Nanho Plum’
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‘Golden Glow’ is thought to have been produced by Major William John Bates van de Weyer during his leave from World War I at his home Smedmore House in Dorset. This is also a hybrid between B. davidii var. magnifica and B. globosa. Read more about Buddleja x weyeriana ‘Golden Glow’
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‘Moonlight’ carries sweetly scented creamy lemon orange eyed flowers for many months from late spring into autumn. It will grow into a two metre or more, tall willowy shrub. Best planted in full sun it is drought hardy once established. Read more about Buddleja x weyeriana ‘Moonlight’
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This silver leaved butterfly bush is a gorgeous selection of Buddleja alternifolia having leaves covered by silky hairs which gives the plant its silvery appearance. It’s perhaps best grown as a standard to show its graceful weeping habit to the greatest advantage. Read more about Buddleja alternifolia ‘Argentea’
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This beautiful, drought tolerant shrub is grown as much for its handsome foliage as for its flowers, pretty though they are. In our dry climate garden, it has made an upright shrub some 400cm x 300cm. Read more about Buddleja crispa
This superb new small growing violet-black flowered Buddleja is diminutive enough to grow in a pot as well as making a terrific long flowering garden shrub where it will grow around 180cm tall by 120cm wide. Read more about Buddleja ‘Midnight’
I remember my late father being very taken by this when he visited Australia and planted lots of it in my brother’s Monbulk garden. A frost hardy, drought tolerant evergreen shrub which from early summer until late autumn turns itself into cumulus clouds of soft grey flowers. Read more about Bystropogon canariensis
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