Buddleia Salviafolia.
A Garden Corner.
TN the Buddleia Salviafolia we have one of the best of winter flowering trees. Everyone knows the one-time popular Buddleia globosus, the variety that bears the round orange globe flowers. The new variety resembles it in foliage; long pointed leaves, dark green above and white beneath.
.The flowers, however, are very dissimilar. They are more like heads of lilac, of a soft lavender colour, and have a distinctive beauty of their own, enhanced by the large size of the sprays. Like all the Buddleias, this one flowers at the ends of the previous season’s wood, so should be pruned after flowering. This pruning is also advisable in order to produce a dwarf habit in a reasonable way. Buddleia Salviafolia can be recommended for the shrubbery as a subject really worth-while. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 6
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138Buddleia Salviafolia. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 6
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