Buddleja crispa × lindleyana

Most familiar as the cultivars ‘Hever Pride’ and ‘Longstock Pride’, hybrids of this type are deciduous shrubs, reaching a height of approximately 2 metres with a similar spread if regularly pruned. The branches have pale-brown, fissured and peeling bark. The leaves are dark green and relatively small for the size of the plants. Overall these forms more closely resemble B. lindleyana than B. crispa (summer-flowering form), although the leaves, branchlets and flowers are more pubescent, but less conspicuously so than B. crispa. The corolla tubes are long and do not have the significant bend found in B. lindleyana.

The flowers appear in late summer and continue into autumn. The thyrsoid inflorescence is similar in shape to B. davidii, initially upright and sometimes becoming lax as the flowers develop. The colour is a bright purple, without a differently coloured eye. The flowers do not usually develop into seed capsules, so the shrub will flower more or less continuously into autumn without deadheading. The plant may be considered seed-sterile and non-invasive. It can be pruned in the spring in a similar way to other summer flowering species and hybrids, and will regenerate well following hard-pruning (pers. obs.).