Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies'

Buddleja davidii
Cultivar 'Summer Skies'
Origin Storrs, Connecticut, USA.

Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies' is an American cultivar raised by Mark Brand and William Smith of Storrs, Connecticut, and patented in 2012. The shrub is a mutant variety obtained by chemical mutagenesis of seeds, using Ethylmethane sulfonate (EMS). [1]

Description

'Summer Skies' has upright and outwardly spreading branches bearing variegated foliage, the leaf colour ranging through green, yellow and white, complementing the long panicles of pale violet-blue flowers. [1]

Cultivation

'Summer Skies' is not known to be in cultivation beyond the USA.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brand, M. & Smith, W. (2012). Buddleja plant named 'Summer Skies'. Patent application, number 20120017341. US patents office.
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