Buddleia

Buddleia from China, Indian balsam, Japanese knotweed—these were the new weeds on the block, several generations on from the weeds that, as his favorite 19th-century poet, John Clare, put it, ended up "troubling the cornfields with destroying beauty."

Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011

Buddleia from China, Indian balsam, Japanese knotweed—these were the new weeds on the block, several generations on from the weeds that, as his favorite 19th-century poet, John Clare, put it, ended up "troubling the cornfields with destroying beauty."

Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011

The old camera, Canon Powershot A720 was in tow because earlier in the day the first Eastern swallowtail butterfly had been spotted, fluttering around the Buddleia ‘Potters Purple’.

Hummingbird Holy Grail? « Fairegarden 2009

Montane wet forest is found in the western valleys with pure stands of Polylepis sp. or Gnoxys sp. associated with Buddleia incana where undisturbed.

Sangay National Park, Ecuador 2008

The vegetation of the upper half of this zone grows about five meters high and is dominated by Polylepis tomentella, Buddleia incana, Miconia salicifolia and Myrtus communis associated with Monnina crassifolia, Baccharis teindalensis, Disphostephium lavandulaefolium and Gnoxys spp.

Sangay National Park, Ecuador 2008

A summertime delight of the Faire Garden is the butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii.

Butterfly Bush Standards « Fairegarden 2008

Some shrubs and lower trees are unique to this community including Dodonea viscosa, Bumelia peninsularis, and Buddleia crotonoides.

Sierra de la Laguna pine-oak forests 2008

The principal wide-leaf species include Garrya fadyenii and Vaccinium cubense, which are specific to the area located close to Constanza and the Sierra de Bahoruco; Rapanea ferruginea, is common on the slopes of the northern section of the central mountain range, close to Jarabacoa and San José de las Matas; and Buddleia domingensis is in the central mountain range.

Hispaniolan pine forests 2008

Her eyes followed two hummingbirds exchanging words over the heavy purple clusters of a Buddleia bush.

Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

We must now have just about every color of Buddleia known to science: dark purple, light blue, light pink, dark pink, yellow, and white.

BIRDS ETCETERA—Birds, Birding, Birders, and Birdwatching John L. Trapp 2002