Buddleja 'Pink Delight'
Sponsor
Kindly sponsored by
The John Spedan Lewis Foundation
Credits
Andrew Large (2021)
Recommended citation
Large, A.T. (2021), 'Buddleja 'Pink Delight'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Buddleja davidii 'Pink Perfection'
- Buddleja 'Pink Perfection'
Other taxa in genus
- Buddleja albiflora
- Buddleja alternifolia
- Buddleja araucana
- Buddleja asiatica
- Buddleja auriculata
- Buddleja caryopteridifolia
- Buddleja colvilei
- Buddleja cordata
- Buddleja crispa
- Buddleja crispa × lindleyana
- Buddleja curviflora
- Buddleja davidii
- Buddleja delavayi
- Buddleja fallowiana
- Buddleja fallowiana × davidii
- Buddleja FLUTTERBY™ Series
- Buddleja forrestii
- Buddleja globosa
- Buddleja glomerata
- Buddleja japonica
- Buddleja lindleyana
- Buddleja LO AND BEHOLD® Series
- Buddleja longiflora
- Buddleja loricata
- Buddleja × luteolufaucia
- Buddleja macrostachya
- Buddleja marrubiifolia
- Buddleja megalocephala
- Buddleja 'Miss Ruby'
- Buddleja 'Morning Mist'
- Buddleja myriantha
- Buddleja New Dwarf Hybrids
- Buddleja nivea
- Buddleja officinalis
- Buddleja 'Orange Sceptre'
- Buddleja paniculata
- Buddleja × pikei
- Buddleja saligna
- Buddleja 'Salmon Spheres'
- Buddleja salviifolia
- Buddleja 'Silver Frost'
- Buddleja speciosissima
- Buddleja 'Summer Beauty'
- Buddleja virgata
- Buddleja × wardii
- Buddleja × weyeriana
- Buddleja × weyeriana Hybrids
- Buddleja 'Winter Sun'
A hybrid of garden-origin with B. davidii and B. fallowiana ancestry, but mostly resembling B. davidii in its features.
USDA Hardiness Zone 6-9
RHS Hardiness Rating H5
Awards RHS AGM
Buddleja ‘Pink Delight’ is a hybrid cultivar raised at Horticultural Research International (Boskoop, Netherlands) sometime around 1986. It is a complex hybrid involving B. davidii ‘Fascination’, B. davidii ‘Nanho White’ and B. ‘West Hill’ (a hybrid of B. davidii and B. fallowiana); it can also be found listed simply as a B. davidii cultivar (Hatch 2018–2020). ‘Pink Delight’ and ‘Summer Beauty’ are full siblings, yet fairly dissimilar. ‘Pink Delight’ is a moderately vigorous shrub up to 3 m height with mid-green, slightly glaucous foliage. The inflorescences are particularly large, up to 40 cm in length and often 15 cm or more wide. The colour is a true pink, and, although striking, is not to everyone’s taste (Stuart 2006).
Generally, this hybrid is as adaptable, as hardy and robust as any B. davidii cultivar, requiring full sun for at least part of the day and a free draining soil. It is one of the most successful of all Buddleja cultivars and is widely cultivated and available in many countries. It was awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1993, which was reaffirmed in 2010 following a Euro-Trial at RHS Garden Wisley, UK (RHS Trials Office 2010).