Buddleja Saligna Bonsai

The bark becomes longitudinally furrowed with age.

Buddleja saligna bonsai. The leaves are grey green and reduce tremendously. The branchlets are quadrangular in section and winged. Clusters of small creamy white flowers form at the end of branches in spring to summer and have a strong honey scent and attracts many insects. An attractive flowering bushy tree that grows quickly up to 10 m tall.

This buddleja saligna was collected from a farm in the wilderness district south africa during october 2002. Buddleja saligna is endemic to sa and occurs all over sa with the exception of lesotho kwa zulu natal coastal belt and the arid western half of sa. This plant has the widest distribution of any of the buddleja species in the rsa. Display award winning.

To water after sowing stand the tray in a clean shallow container of water and allow to soak up into seed tray. It was my fourth year of doing bonsai and most trees in our vicinity were seriously considered for collection. It can grow in poor soils on hot mountainsides away or close to water. Sow in a good fine seedling mix in seedling trays.

Buddleja saligna is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing 15 m in height with a trunk diameter of 40 cm and very similar to salix and olea. Nel was internationally known as the king of buddleja saligna an evergreen south african species commonly known as false olive or squarestem butterflybush. Buddleja saligna a neglected bonsai subject. Very dense finely divided foliage pads can be rapidly developed.

This plant occurs in all provinces in the rsa as well as in swaziland and zimbabwe. The seed is very fine and should be mixed with sand to obtain an even distribution. This tree is often associated with forest margins e g. Itis a widespread tree that develops spectacular ridged trunks that impart a feeling of maturity and great age.

This is an excellent water wise plant that grows quickly to form a screen or hedge. Buddleja in bonsai the best recognised species for bonsai is buddleja saligna saligna meaning willow common name false olive white olive and butterfly bush. It has a gray green appearance except when it is in flower when it turns white or cream under the masses of clusters of small flowers. This tree also makes excellent bonsai.

A small to medium sized evergreen tree. Buddleja saligna false olive is one of our fastest growing most water wise and cold resistant trees.