Buddleja 'Summer Beauty'
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Kindly sponsored by
The John Spedan Lewis Foundation
Credits
Andrew Large (2021)
Recommended citation
Large, A.T. (2021), 'Buddleja 'Summer Beauty'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Buddleja albiflora
- Buddleja alternifolia
- Buddleja araucana
- Buddleja asiatica
- Buddleja auriculata
- Buddleja caryopteridifolia
- Buddleja colvilei
- Buddleja cordata
- Buddleja crispa
- Buddleja crispa × lindleyana
- Buddleja curviflora
- Buddleja davidii
- Buddleja delavayi
- Buddleja fallowiana
- Buddleja fallowiana × davidii
- Buddleja FLUTTERBY™ Series
- Buddleja forrestii
- Buddleja globosa
- Buddleja glomerata
- Buddleja japonica
- Buddleja lindleyana
- Buddleja LO AND BEHOLD® Series
- Buddleja longiflora
- Buddleja loricata
- Buddleja × luteolufaucia
- Buddleja macrostachya
- Buddleja marrubiifolia
- Buddleja megalocephala
- Buddleja 'Miss Ruby'
- Buddleja 'Morning Mist'
- Buddleja myriantha
- Buddleja New Dwarf Hybrids
- Buddleja nivea
- Buddleja officinalis
- Buddleja 'Orange Sceptre'
- Buddleja paniculata
- Buddleja × pikei
- Buddleja 'Pink Delight'
- Buddleja saligna
- Buddleja 'Salmon Spheres'
- Buddleja salviifolia
- Buddleja 'Silver Frost'
- Buddleja speciosissima
- Buddleja virgata
- Buddleja × wardii
- Buddleja × weyeriana
- Buddleja × weyeriana Hybrids
- Buddleja 'Winter Sun'
A hydrid Buddleja of garden-origin with a combined B. davidii and B. fallowiana ancestry, but mostly resembling B. davidii in its features.
USDA Hardiness Zone 7-9
RHS Hardiness Rating H5
Buddleja ‘Summer Beauty’ is a hybrid cultivar raised at Horticultural Research International (Boskoop, Netherlands). It is a complex hybrid involving B. davidii ‘Fascination’, B. davidii ‘Nanho White’ and B. × ‘West Hill’ (itself a hybrid of B. davidii and B fallowiana); it can often be found listed simply as a B. davidii cultivar. ‘Summer Beauty’ is a full sibling of ‘Pink Delight’, but is not particularly similar. This hybrid is a fairly restrained Buddleja, not exceeding 2 m height and spread. The foliage is light green, tending to more glaucous in the emerging foliage. The inflorescences are smaller than ‘Pink Delight’, on average only about 20 cm long, with flowers of a deep cerise pink (Stuart 2006).
‘Summer Beauty’ has one of the brightest and most strikingly coloured flowers of any Buddleja, however, unlike most cultivars and hybrids, the plant is hard to propagate, having a low strike rate for cuttings and being slow to establish. Once mature, it still requires relatively more favourable conditions compared to its nearest relatives. These limitations have meant this hybrid is less popular and not so widely available as it might have been otherwise.