Buddleja (Buddleia) davidii Orpheus

An unusual variety with grey green leaves & nice blue flowers in late Summer. Height: Flowering to 2m Spread: Easily maintained to 1.5m Foliage Colour: Lance shaped grey green Flower Colour: Blue-purple with white eye Soil Type: Well drained, sandy, loam, chalk, clay Position: Full Sun – Partial Shade Hardiness: Hardy H6 (-15) Type: Deciduous Shrub

Supplied in either 9cm pot or 2 Litre pot, please select from the drop down menu when ordering.

Unique Features:

• Unusual variety with grey green leaves
• Nice blue flowers in late Summer
• Easily maintained to 1.5m spread
• Attracts butterflies and beneficial insects
• Can be grown in a variety of soil types and positions
• Hardy and easy to grow

Growing Advice:

Buddleja can suffer from a few problems but these are easily remedied, mostly by pruning. Pruning should be rather straight forward but often plants are pruned too hard, too early (usually around late autumn and into winter), pruning this early can promote new shoots to grow through the early winter months, this is due to many Buddleja being semi-evergreen and happily continuing to grow through a mild winter. Once the frosts arrive in late winter (January/February) these young shoots are easily frosted and this can lead to a very late leafing up in spring or even loosing the plants altogether. The easy remedy is to prune established plants by a third in October/November to loosely shape the shrub then in late March/April you can prune the Buddleja down quite hard, even by another third if you wish and then the plant will grow away happily. This type of pruning will not affect flowering, a late spring/early summer light pruning will actually improve flowering and prolong flowers later into the season.