• Eventual height: 6m
  • Eventual spread: 5m

Buddleja globosa

orange ball tree

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This shrub is deciduous so it will lose all its leaves in autumn, then fresh new foliage appears again each spring.

  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: well drained chalky soil
  • Rate of growth: fast growing
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Hardiness:
  • fully hardy


A large, highly distinctive semi-evergreen shrub with long, narrow, dark green leathery-looking leaves with white undersides. Clusters of fragrant, spherical dark orange and yellow flowers appear in early-summer. Buddleja globosa thrives with the protection of a sunny wall and is best suited positioned towards the back of the border, with silver-leaved perennials such as Nepeta x faasenii and Stachys byzantina gently spilling at its base.


  • Garden care:
  • When planting this buddleja, add some well-rotted organic mulch into the planting hole and a sprinkling of mycorrhizal fungi. Once established, in late winter, remove dead and weak shoots, reduce poorly formed stems by about a third and reduce the overall height to promote even flowering throughout the shrub.
    • CAUTION toxic if eaten/skin & eye irritant
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