Buddleia x weyeriana ‘Honeycomb’ Native As summer fades and frost

As summer fades and frost finally claims the top growth

in part because the more marketable timber trees around the water hickory have so often been logged out

dark green leaves cut into narrow

a magenta few other butterfly bushes can touch

Additional photos courtesy of David J

Buddleia x weyeriana ‘Honeycomb’ Native As summer fades and frostA yellow flowered butterfly bush, Buddleia x weyeriana 'Honeycomb' is a vigorous hybrid of Buddleia globosa and Buddleia davidii that the late Dr. Michael Dirr judged better than the older 'Sungold'. The plant came to Dirr from Crathes Castle Garden in Scotland, bought as the variety 'E. H. Wilson' but proving to be a very different and superior yellow butterfly bush, named 'Honeycomb' and a standout in Georgia trials, flowering as late as