Buddleja 'Podaras6' = Flutterby Peace

Buddleja 'Podaras6', selling name Flutterby Peace, is a hybrid cultivar that Peter Podaras raised while at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and which Cornell patented in 2011. Flutterby Peace was derived from the crossing Buddleja alternifolia × Buddleja davidii.[1]

Not to be confused with 'Peace', the B. davidii cultivar.
Buddleja hybrid
Cultivar'Podaras6' = Flutterby Peace
OriginP. Podaras, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

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.[1][2] The plant is sterile and non-invasive.[2]

Cultivation

In the United Kingdom, several specimens were introduced to the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG)'s National Plant Collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire in 2012.[3] The shrub is reportedly hardy to −29 °C (−20 °F).[2]

Hardiness: USDA zones 5a–10a.[2]

See also

Non-invasive Buddleja cultivars

References
  1. "Buddleja plant named 'Podaras #6'". Google Patents. USPP22142P2. Archived from the original on August 9, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  2. "Buddleia Flutterby® Peace". Ball Seed: Plant Information. West Chicago, Illinois: Ball Horticultural Company. August 17, 2021. Archived from the original on August 6, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  3. "Flutterby® Peace". Hardy Hybrids. Longstock, Hampshire, England: Longstock Park Nursery: National Plant Collection: The Buddleia National Collection. 2016. Accession Number B188. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.


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