Buddleja davidii 'Orpheus'

Buddleja davidii

'Orpheus', Longstock Park, UK
Cultivar 'Orpheus'
Origin The Lavender Garden, Tetbury, England

Buddleja davidii 'Orpheus' is a cultivar raised by The Lavender Garden, Tetbury, UK, and introduced to commerce in 2002. [1]

Description

'Orpheus' is an upright shrub, growing to a height of 2 m and distinguished by its 15–20 m long panicles of deep-blue flowers, with white eye and orange throat.

Cultivation

'Orpheus' is rare in cultivation, and not known beyond the UK. A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national buddleja collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Sanders, C. (2012). The air's buzzing with buddleias (sic). The Garden, September 2012, 56–60. Royal Horticultural Society, London.
  2. ↑ Moore, P. (2012). Buddleja List, 2011-2012, Longstock Park Nursery Longstock Park Nursery, UK.
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