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Buddleja 'Boy Blue'

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Cultivar
  
'Boy Blue'

Origin
  
Peter Moore, Longstock Park Nursery, UK.

Buddleja 'Boy Blue' is a hybrid cultivar raised circa 2000 by Peter Moore, Chief Propagator at the Longstock Park Nursery in Hampshire, England. The cultivar is the result of a crossing of B. × weyeriana and B. davidii.

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Description

'Boy Blue' grows to a height of about 3 m, and is distinguished by its weyeriana - shape panicles comprising globose heads of pale blue flowers with orange eyes; the mid-green leaves are large. [1]

Cultivation

'Boy Blue' is not known to be in cultivation beyond the UK. A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge.

Synonymy

  • Buddleja 'Blue Boy' (original name before registration).
  • Buddleja × weyeriana 'Boy Blue'

    • References

    Buddleja 'Boy Blue' Wikipedia
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