Buddleja 'Pink Pagoda'

Buddleja hybrid

'Pink Pagoda', Longstock Park, UK
Cultivar 'Pink Pagoda'
Origin Peter Moore, Longstock Park Nursery, UK.

Buddleja 'Pink Pagoda' (sold as InSpired Pink in the USA) is a sterile hybrid cultivar raised in 1998 by Peter Moore, Chief Propagator at the Longstock Park Nursery in Hampshire, England, and named by Roy Lancaster. The cultivar is the result of a crossing of Buddleja 'Pink Delight' with Buddleja × weyeriana 'Golden Glow'. [1] Plant Breeders' Rights were awarded in 2008.

Description

'Pink Pagoda' makes a compact shrub < 2 m high, bearing large panicles comprising an evenly staggered succession of globose heads of light-pink flowers, diminishing in diameter towards the tip; the foliage is mid green. [1]

Cultivation

'Pink Pagoda' is cultivated in the UK, continental Europe, and the USA, where it is marketed as InSpired Pink by Proven Winners LLC, Illinois. A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Moore, P. (2012). Buddleja List 2011-2012 Longstock Park Nursery. Longstock Park, UK.
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