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unusual facts about Buddleja davidii 'Dartmoor'


Buddleja davidii 'Dartmoor'

Reputedly cloned from a plant found growing in a small ravine on Dartmoor near Yelverton by a retired American gardener by the name of Hayles, the shrub was introduced to commerce in 1973 and accorded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (record 678) in 1993 (reaffirmed 2010).


Agnes Prest

In 1909 a monument in the form of an obelisk of Dartmoor granite was erected in Denmark Road, Exeter, to the memories of the Protestant Martyrs Agnes Prest (d.1557) and Thomas Benet (d.1531).

Association of National Park Authorities

England: Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, New Forest, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, South Downs, Yorkshire Dales and The Broads which has equivalent status to a National Park.

Bellever

The farm gained a reputation for the introduction of Galloway and Aberdeen Angus cattle onto Dartmoor.

Buddleja 'Pink Delight'

Buddleja 'Pink Delight' is a cultivar raised by the Horticultural Research Institute in Boskoop, Netherlands, in 1986 from the hybrid B. davidii 'Fascination' × B. davidii var. nanhoensis 'Alba' × B. 'West Hill'.

Buddleja davidii 'Autumn Beauty'

The shrub was cloned from a plant grown from seed sent from Beijing to Paignton Zoo, one of the four NCCPG national buddleja collection holders.

Buddleja davidii 'Carroll Deep Lavender'

Buddleja davidii 'Carroll Deep Lavender' is a selection made by the Carroll Gardens Inc., (ceased trading 2009) Westminster, Maryland, USA.

Buddleja davidii 'Castle School'

Buddleja davidii 'Castle School' is a recent introduction, cloned from a seedling discovered growing in the wall of the eponymous Castle School in Tiverton, Devon, England, by nurseryman Martin Hugh-Jones, and introduced to commerce in 2004.

Buddleja davidii 'Charming'

Buddleja davidii 'Charming' is a vigorous American cultivar raised by Paul Winzer, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, USA.

Buddleja davidii 'Corinne Tremaine'

Buddleja davidii 'Corinne Tremaine' is a cultivar raised at the The Herb Garden & Historical Plant Nursery on Anglesey, north Wales.

Buddleja davidii 'Croyde'

Buddleja davidii 'Croyde' is a cultivar raised from a seedling discovered growing on waste ground in the eponymous Devon village by nurseryman Martin Hugh-Jones, and introduced to commerce in 2004.

Buddleja davidii 'Dudley's Compact Lavender'

Little is known about cultivation; the plant was introduced to the UK by the Longstock Park Nursery, NCCPG national collection holder, which received a specimen from the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Kentucky.

Buddleja davidii 'Florence'

Buddleja davidii 'Florence' is a variegated cultivar introduced and registered by the Stone Green Nursery, Bethersden, Ashford, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Foxtail'

Buddleja davidii 'Foxtail' is a little-known Dutch cultivar raised by the Ferdinandushof Nursery at Overslag.

Buddleja davidii 'Fromow's Purple'

Buddleja davidii 'Fromow's Purple' is a British cultivar released circa 1945 by the Fromow Nursery of Windlesham, Surrey.

Buddleja davidii 'Gary William'

Buddleja davidii 'Gary William' is a French introduction, raised by the Le Jardin de Rochevieille, Viviers, near Montelimar.

Buddleja davidii 'Lavender Beauty'

Buddleja davidii 'Lavender Beauty' is a cultivar raised by the Viette Nursery, Fishersville, Virginia, USA.

Buddleja davidii 'Lilac Moon'

Buddleja List, 2011-2012, Longstock Park Nursery Longstock Park Nursery, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Opera'

David Stuart, former curator of the NCCPG national collection of Buddleja at Longstock Park Nursery, England, rated 'Opera' third in the pink Buddleja league, behind 'Pink Delight' and 'Border Beauty'.

Buddleja davidii 'Orchid'

Buddleja davidii 'Orchid' is an American cultivar raised by Anne Rainey of Columbia, South Carolina, and introduced to commerce by Niche Gardens, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Buddleja davidii 'Panache'

A specimen is grown at the Longstock Park Nursery as part of the NCCPG national collection of Buddleja.

Buddleja davidii 'Pixie'

Specimens of 'Pixie Blue' and 'Pixie White' are grown as part of the NCCPG national buddleja collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Queen's Robe'

Buddleja davidii 'Queen's Robe' is a little-known American cultivar raised by Bluestone Perennials Inc., Madison, Ohio, though no longer listed by the company.

Buddleja davidii 'Sir John'

Buddleja davidii 'Sir John' is a variegated cultivar introduced and registered by the Stone Green Nursery, Bethersden, Ashford, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies'

Buddleja davidii 'Summer Skies' is an American cultivar raised by Mark Brand and William Smith of Storrs, Connecticut, and patented in 2012.

Buddleja davidii 'Three in One'

'Three in One' is produced by the Van Meuwen nursery at Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Tobudpipur' = Buzz Magenta

Buddleja List 2011 - 2012 Longstock Park Nursery Longstock Park Nursery, Stockbridge, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Tovelill'

Buddleja davidii 'Tovelill' is a little-known cultivar of Scandinavian origin and named for the Norwegian beauty queen Tove Lill Løyte.

Buddleja davidii 'White Wings'

A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national buddleja collection held by Longstock Park Nursery in the UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Windy Hill'

'Windy Hill' was raised from a chance seedling and introduced by Dennis Mareb of the Windy Hill Nursery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Cornish Riviera Express

Additional slip coaches were added to be dropped from the train on the move at various stations to serve holiday destinations such as Weymouth, Minehead, Ilfracombe, and Newquay, and the train began to run non-stop to Newton Abbot where a pilot engine was added for the climb over the Dainton and Rattery banks, the southern outliers of Dartmoor.

Cornubian batholith

From gravity and magnetic geophysical data, the batholith is interpreted to extend from about 8°W, more than 100 km southwest of the Isles of Scilly, to the eastern edge of Dartmoor.

Danger on Dartmoor

Danger on Dartmoor is a 1980 British drama film directed by David Eady and starring Marcus Evans, Simon Henderson, Debby Salter and Barry Foster.

Dartmoor

Widgery Cross – granite cross atop Brat Tor, memorial erected by Dartmoor artist William Widgery to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887

During the Great Thunderstorm of 1638, the Dartmoor town of Widecombe-in-the-moor was even said to have been visited by the Devil.

Hilary Bonner

Her latest novel The Cruellest Game, set on Dartmoor, charts the cataclysmic collapse of a woman’s apparently perfect life when she finds that almost everything in it is based upon a lie.

Lowland heath

By contrast, upland heath, which is above 300 metres in altitude, is called Moorland, Dartmoor being an example.

Moorland

Moorland forms the setting of various works of late Romantic English literature, ranging from the Yorkshire moorland in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett to Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Newton Abbot railway station

It is a useful staging point for freight trains travelling over the steep inclines of Dartmoor on the way to Plymouth as these trains either have to be shorter or use additional locomotives compared with the flat route from Exeter.

Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway

He had founded the settlement that he called Princetown, on Dartmoor, and he was anxious to improve the living conditions of the inhabitants.

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Many prehistoric artefacts from Dartmoor, important Bronze Age and Iron Age material from Mount Batten and medieval and post-medieval finds from Plymouth are found in the human history collection alongside artifacts from Ancient Egypt and other ancient cultures of Europe and the Middle East.

Project Lazarus

At the Forge on Dartmoor, Nimrod conducts a terrible experiment on the Doctor, attempting to force him to regenerate by electrocution.

Ricky Groves

The pair married in a ceremony on 2 September 2006, in a country church on Dartmoor.

River Burn

The River Burn, Devon, a tributary of the River Tavy on Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England

South Atlantic Raiders

The robbery goes well, but their attempt to purchase a jet from British Aerospace to get to the Falklands ends with everyone except Stan arrested and sent to Dartmoor.

Stan manages to get a stay of execution by telling Galtieri and his men the story of how he reached that point; after the escape from Dartmoor, Stan and his accomplices sneaked about a passenger jet heading to Vancouver by pretending to be the crew, Max having had some limited experience in flying Cessna aircraft "before my first breakdown."

South Devon Banks

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in surveying the South Devon Railway, opted to push a line along a coastal strip between the Exe and Teign valleys, and then to climb the southern outliers of Dartmoor making for the head of the Plym estuary.

Susan Derges

From 1986 to 1991 Derges lived in London, moving to Dartmoor, Devon in 1992.

The Sontaran Experiment

This was only the second serial in the history of Doctor Who (the first being 1970's Spearhead from Space) to be shot entirely on location, in this case at Hound Tor on Dartmoor.


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