Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant The genus name is a

The genus name is a Latin rendering of the Japanese aokiba

Use 'Miss Ruby' in a sunny border

and unusually clothed beneath with a grey-white felt

an old grower's trick keeps the crown safe: after the frost kills the stems

This is a shrub worth growing for eleven months on foliage alone

Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant The genus name is aBuddleia loricata, the mountain sagewood, is a rugged evergreen from the high Drakensberg of South Africa and Lesotho, and one of the hardiest of all the butterfly bushes. Unlike the familiar deciduous buddlejas, this species holds narrow, crinkled, sage like leaves the year round, dark green above and felted silvery white beneath. The species epithet loricata means clad in mail or armored, a nod to that tough, quilted foliage, while the genus honors