RE: purple butterfly bush

Royal Red?  It is a purple with a red tone to it, versus a blue tone.

-----Original Message-----
From: Beth [B*@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 3:09 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: purple butterfly bush


   I've started working at my favorite nursery part-time, and they have an
amazingly vibrant, radiating purple butterfly bush variety for sale - I
don't remeber the variety, except that it had RED in the name (but I didn't
see anything that resembled red - just eye-catching purple !). I'll check
the variety name when I go back Friday, but based on a web search, I think
it might be 'Royal Red'. (If you do a google image search on buddleia royal
red you'll see a wide variety of colors...).
   (Working at the nursery part-time means that I get to check out all the
plants and new arrivals while they pay me, but of course I spend most of my
paycheck there, even with the employee discount. But I'm having a great
time, even though it can be very hard work !)
Beth (zone 5, MI near Traverse City)

----- Original Message -----
From: <glink@att.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:32 AM
Subject: purple butterfly bush


> Hi everyone,
> I have been enjoying the discussion on hot colors - I
> love nasturtiums and bright colors generally, including
> orange & purple together.  A garden all in pink & blue
> sounds wimpy to me!  But I do love blue and white in the
> summer, makes it look cooler.
>
> My question is, when I was exploring the Olympic
> peninsula this summer, I suddenly came around a corner
> (in the car) and there in front of me was the most
> gorgeous butterfly bush I've ever seen - it looked like
> an explosion of bottlebrushes in fluorescent/neon deep
> purple.  Now I have seen lots of purple butterfly
> bushes, but none of them looked like that.  Do you think
> the intense color was due to the cool humidity, or is
> this something I could order from somewhere?
>
> Gale Link
> Nashville z6
>
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