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Cultivar 'Podaras6' = Flutterby Peace Origin P. Podaras, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Similar Buddleja 'Ellen's Blue', Buddleja 'Miss Ruby', Buddleja davidii 'Tobudpip, Buddleja davidii 'Tobuivo, Buddleja 'Lochinch' | ||
Buddleja 'Podaras6', selling name Flutterby Peace, is a hybrid cultivar raised by Peter Podaras whilst at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and patented in 2011. Flutterby Peace was derived from the crossing Buddleja alternifolia × Buddleja davidii.
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Description
Flutterby Peace makes a small, compact, densely branched shrub with an outwardly spreading habit. Growing to a maximum height and width of about 1.2 × 1.5 m, the shrub bears compound terminal and axillary panicles about 6.3 cm long by 3.6 cm wide, each comprising around 130 faintly fragrant pale-violet flowers. The flowers emerge in spring and persist until the first frosts of the fall. The opposite, elliptic leaves are about 5.5 cm long by 1.7 cm wide, smooth, glabrous above, lanulose below.
Cultivation
In the UK, several specimens were introduced to the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge in 2012. The shrub is reputedly hardy to - 29° C.