I was in Portugal recently and I saw the most beautiful Buddleia bush with round heads, each head had pink/orange/yellow petals on it. I have searched for its proper title and for places to buy it to no avail- can anyone help? Many thanks!
B. globosa is great for honeybees as the flowers are shorter than B davidii and they can get their probosces in. Worth getting for that alone, but if there are other colours you liek even beter I daresay the bees won't mind. Good luck
So after all your help I have come across the answer, to do with pollination: they are buddleya globosa bicolour yellow and orange, which turn pink/red once they have been pollinated by the bees/butterflies, to tell them they have no more nectar: what an interesting and beautiful thing to learn
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Try Buddleja globosaX 'Salmon Spheres'
it will be one of the crosses between globosa and davidii
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you nutcutlet, I've searched under those and can't find it online, could be though!
B. globosa is great for honeybees as the flowers are shorter than B davidii and they can get their probosces in. Worth getting for that alone, but if there are other colours you liek even beter I daresay the bees won't mind. Good luck
Is it buddleja x weyeriana bicolor.
Weyeriana are usually more yellow but that one has more pinky purple.
So after all your help I have come across the answer, to do with pollination: they are buddleya globosa bicolour yellow and orange, which turn pink/red once they have been pollinated by the bees/butterflies, to tell them they have no more nectar: what an interesting and beautiful thing to learn