Cultivar 'Pink Pagoda' | ||
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Origin Peter Moore, Longstock Park Nursery, UK. Similar Buddleja 'Morning Mist' = Sil, Buddleja 'Miss Ruby', Buddleja 'Lochinch', Buddleja 'Pink Delight', Buddleja davidii 'Royal Red' | ||
Buddleja 'Pink Pagoda' (sold as InSpired Pink in the USA) is a sterile hybrid cultivar raised in 1998 by Peter Moore, Chief Propagator at the Longstock Park Nursery in Hampshire, England, and named by Roy Lancaster. The cultivar is the result of a crossing of Buddleja 'Pink Delight' with Buddleja × weyeriana 'Golden Glow'. Plant Breeders' Rights were awarded in 2008.
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Description
'Pink Pagoda' makes a compact shrub < 2 m high, bearing large panicles comprising an evenly staggered succession of globose heads of light-pink flowers, diminishing in diameter towards the tip; the foliage is mid green.
Cultivation
'Pink Pagoda' is cultivated in the UK, continental Europe, and the USA, where it is marketed as InSpired Pink by Proven Winners LLC, Illinois. A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge.