Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant and unusually clothed beneath with

and unusually clothed beneath with a grey-white felt

The South has prized the shrub for generations for that same unreasonable winter fragrance

explains a great deal about the plant: upright

an old grower's trick keeps the crown safe: after the frost kills the stems

Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant and unusually clothed beneath withBuddleia loricata, the mountain sagewood, is a rugged evergreen from the high Drakensberg of South Africa and Lesotho, and one of the hardiest of all the butterfly bushes. Unlike the familiar deciduous buddlejas, this species holds narrow, crinkled, sage like leaves the year round, dark green above and felted silvery white beneath. The species epithet loricata means clad in mail or armored, a nod to that tough, quilted foliage, while the genus honors