[1001] Buddleia Auriculata
The leaves are dark green above with pale undersides.
[95] Buddleia Auriculata Free. Locally buddleja salviifolia is known as sagewood wild lilac and butterfly bush. With its beautiful fragrance attractive flowers and foliage the weeping sage is a welcome addition in any garden. Buddleja auriculata is an evergreen shrub endemic to zimbabwe mozambique and south africa growing in montane fields and thickets at elevations of 600 2 000 m.
Plants need protection from frost best grown on a south facing wall. This dense shrub or small tree branches from low down and has a graceful weeping form. A beautiful arching shrub with dark green leathery foliage with a white reverse and sprays of sweetly scented cream coloured flowers in spring.
Buddleja auriculata from burncoose nurseries available online to buy information. The tree can be used to form a screen or as informal hedging and looks beautiful when planted close to water. It should get sun for most of the day.
They occur in the wild from tanzania malawi. Buddleja auriculata is known as the weeping sage. Heavily scented creamy white flowers.
Large sprays of fragrant flowers borne in winter. Buddleja salviifolia and buddleja auriculata are members of the wild elder family. Zimbabwe lesotho and in south.
Buddleja auriculata is a lax growing shrub with branches which arch to the ground in places. Buddleja auriculata is frost and drought resistant and grows fast making it ideal for highveld conditions. The small cream flowers are borne on the previous year s wood in late autumn or winter.
With glossy dark green and silvery foliage throughout the year fragrant flowers in winter and frost hardy to boot buddleja auriculata is a must for any medium to large garden within its habitat range. A very hardy evergreen shrub with a weeping appearance. The genus is named after the rev.
Adam buddle 1660 1715 an english botanist and auriculata means having an ear like appendage and refers to the stipule between the leaves which resembles a small ear. There are seven species of buddleja in south africa. It attracts butterflies to the garden.
Genus buddleja can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs occasionally trees or scrambling climbers with simple leaves and panicles of small tubular fragrant flowers details b. Evergreen narrowly oblong leaves to 12cm 5in long white beneath cream creamy white. Plants outside will be root hardy however all top growth will die and resprout in spring.