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Buddleja asiatica
1 February 2010
The exaggeratedly elegant panicles of this tender buddleja have been stretching for a month, lengthening through all the darkest and coldest days. They started to open their tiny flowers, white with a golden eye, in the last week of January, and now fill the conservatory with a gentle sweetness, related to honey but less pungent: a background scent that conveys the sense of spring.
I would grow this buddleja for its leaves even if it never flowered. They are racing boat shaped, long, narrow and white-felted behind, lightly covering a plant that bows and stoops in multiple elegant curves.
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