Cultivar 'Podaras9' = Flutterby Pink Origin P. Podaras, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Similar Buddleja 'Miss Ruby', Buddleja × weyeriana 'Honeycomb', Buddleja 'Ellen's Blue', Buddleja 'Pink Delight', Buddleja davidii 'White Pr | ||
Buddleja 'Podaras9', selling name Flutterby Pink, is a sterile hybrid cultivars raised by Peter Podaras whilst at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and patented in 2011. Flutterby Pink was derived from the crossing of two unnamed, unknown selections of Buddleja davidii. [1]
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Description
Flutterby Pink makes a small shrub with an upright growing habit. Growing to a maximum height and spread of 1.2 × 1.5 m, the shrub bears compound terminal and axillary panicles about 8 cm long by 5 cm wide, each comprising around 250 faintly fragrant pale purple-violet flowers. The flowers emerge in spring and persist until the first frosts of the fall. The opposite, elliptic to lanceolate leaves are about 9 cm long by 3 cm wide, lanulose above and below. [2] [3]
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. [4]