Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant Use 'Miss Ruby' in a

Use 'Miss Ruby' in a sunny border

This is a shrub worth growing for eleven months on foliage alone

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

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

and unusually clothed beneath with a grey-white felt

Buddleia loricata Drought Tolerant Use 'Miss Ruby' in aBuddleia 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