Buddleja 'Morning Mist' = Silver Anniversary

Buddleja hybrid

Silver Anniversary™, Longstock Park, UK
Cultivar 'Morning Mist' = Silver Anniversary™
Origin Peter Moore, Longstock Park Nursery, UK.

Buddleja 'Morning Mist' (selling name Silver Anniversary™) is a sterile hybrid cultivar raised in 1994 by Peter Moore, Chief Propagator at the Longstock Park Nursery in Hampshire, England, and patented in the USA in 2007. The cultivar is the result of a crossing of Buddleja crispa and Buddleja loricata.[1][2]

Description

Silver Anniversary makes a compact shrub < 2 m high, bearing very silvery pubescent evergreen foliage; the inflorescences are not so striking, comprising small fragrant panicles of 50 - 60 whitish flowers with mustard yellow eyes.[1]

Cultivation

Silver Anniversary has been introduced to the USA and continental Europe. A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Hatch, L. (2007). Cultivars of Woody Plants. Vol. 1 (A-G) 2007 Edition. TCR Press, Horticultural PDF. books.
  2. 1 2 Moore, P. (2012). Buddleja List 2011-2012 Longstock Park Nursery. Longstock Park, UK.


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