Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant The South has prized the

The South has prized the shrub for generations for that same unreasonable winter fragrance

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

The genus name is a Latin rendering of the Japanese aokiba

Use 'Miss Ruby' in a sunny border

and largely among people who care deeply

Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant The South has prized theBuddleia 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