Flower Of The Month “Buddleja Paniculata”
Buddleja paniculata
Buddleja paniculata
Flower Of The Month “Buddleja Paniculata”
Known as Butterfly Bush, or Rachavadee in Thai. The shrub to plant if you want butterflies in your garden. It is a favourite host plant of butterflies, hence its name ”Butterfly Bush”.
The tiny white flowers that come in narrow spikes have a lovely sweet scent that pervades the air from early morning to noon.
When planting mix the soil with compost and dry leaves (kambhu or raintree is best) or manure. It thrives best in a sunny area with well-drained soil. It is propagated by stem-cutting or marcotting.
Description of Flower Of The Month “Buddleja Paniculata”:
Several species are popular garden plants, Buddleja paniculata are commonly known as butterfly bush due to their attractiveness to butterflies; they are also attractive to bees and moths. Some species of Buddleja with red flowers are also attractive to hummingbirds.
Flower Of The Month “Buddleja Paniculata”
The most popular cultivated species is Buddleja paniculata from central China, named after the French naturalist Père Armand David. Other common garden species include Buddleja globosa from southern Chile, grown for its strongly honey-scented orange globular flower-heads, and Buddleja alternifolia with lilac coloured flowers. Several interspecific hybrids can also be found, including B. × weyeriana (B. globosa × B. davidii).
Some species are commonly found as escapees from the garden. B. davidii in particular is a great coloniser of dry open ground; in towns in the United Kingdom, it often self-sows on waste ground or old masonry, where it grows into a dense thicket, and it is listed as an invasive species in many areas. It is frequently seen beside railway lines, on derelict factory sites and after the Second World War on urban bomb sites.
Popular garden varieties of Buddleja paniculata include “Royal Red” with pink-red flowers, “Black Knight” with dark navy blue flowers, “Sungold” with golden yellow flowers and “Pink Delight” with pastel pink coloured flowers. In recent years, much breeding work has been undertaken to create more compact Buddleja paniculata plants, the most recent of which is the production of a dwarf variety Lo & Behold(TM) “Blue Chip”(TM) that reaches no more than 2–3 ft (0.61–0.91 m) tall. Buddleja paniculata is a beautiful plant called Butterfly Bush in other parts in the world.
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on Oct 18 2010. Filed under Featurd Thailand, Flora, Thailand today.
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