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Buddleja - Butterfly Bush

Genus: Buddleja.

Species: Buddleja 'Lochinch'.

Bears spikes of tightly-packed violet-blue flowers in late summer and autumn. Attractive to butterflies. The flowers are fragrant. Companion plants: Lavatera & Crinum.
Descr. from label: Buddleja 'Lochinch' is an old hybrid cultivar raised from a chance seedling found in the garden of the Earl of Stair at Lochinch Castle, Scotland, circa 1940; the shrub's parents believed to be Buddleja davidii and Buddleja fallowiana

Photos of this plant

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