Specialty Gardening: Flowers from yard to vase, 1 by soilsandup

soilsandup wrote:
Here is one plant that was not what I expected when I first got it. I was looking for a medium-sized shrub, around 3-4 feet tall. I purchased this buddleja (I had always spelled it buddleia, then found out I was wrong) about three years ago. It has grown to over 10 feet every year (the fence behind it is 8 ft tall), and I have had to prune it hard every year. I did not know that buddlejas came in such a huge range of heights. I was fortunate in that I planted it in a space where it was OK for it to be bigger than expected, and it does give out a profusion of lovely purplish-pink spirals.