Buddleja salviifolia
With its sweetly-scented flowers, being a feature of our spring season, and its aromatic leaves, the Sagewood has become a popular garden plant frequented by a variety of birds and insects like bees and butterflies. It’s usual growth form is a shrub that may grow up to 4m tall. Sagewood occurs naturally throughout the wetter parts of South Africa, from the Western Cape to Limpopo, growing along streams and on hillsides. In traditional medicine the roots are boiled as a remedy for cough and colic, and in olden days the wood was used to make spears and fishing poles.
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Beautiful plant! It reminds me of a plant I knew when growing up in California. Purple Sage. A common plant that was mentioned in the title of an Iconic western novel, “Riders of the Purple Sage” by Zane Grey published in 1912.
I quickly looked up the Purple Sage – what a beautiful bush, and I bet it smells terrific!
It does, indeed!
Such a beautiful plant!
Agree 100%, thanks Ilze!
An excellent plant to focus on!
I think we’re lucky to have so many interesting plants native to our country, Anne?
There is absolutely no reason to leave our paradise!
I know it as Weeping Sage. The scent of the flowers is heavenly.
That’s very true, Petru!
scented flowers and leaves…wonderful! I thought this might be like our butterfly bush, but Google says otherwise. Same genus but different plant.
Now that’s very interesting, thanks Lois! Obviously a family that makes butterflies very happy!
Very pretty and having a lovely scent is an enormous bonus!
Lovely to walk through a stand of these in the early morning when their aroma fills the air!