''Buddleja'' 'Pink Pagoda'
| Buddleja hybrid | |
|---|---|
 'Pink Pagoda', Longstock Park, UK | |
| Cultivar | 'Pink Pagoda' |
| Origin | Peter Moore, Longstock Park Nursery, UK. |
Buddleja 'Pink Pagoda' (sold as InSpired Pink in the USA) is a sterile hybrid cultivar raised in 1998 by Peter Moore, Chief Propagator at the Longstock Park Nursery in Hampshire, England, and named by Roy Lancaster. The cultivar is the result of a crossing of Buddleja 'Pink Delight' with Buddleja × weyeriana 'Golden Glow'. [1] Plant Breeders' Rights were awarded in 2008.
Description
'Pink Pagoda' makes a compact shrub < 2 m high, bearing large panicles comprising an evenly staggered succession of globose heads of light-pink flowers, diminishing in diameter towards the tip; the foliage is mid green. [1]
Cultivation
'Pink Pagoda' is cultivated in the UK, continental Europe, and the USA, where it is marketed as InSpired Pink by Proven Winners LLC, Illinois. A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge.[1]