Buddleja speciosissima

A splendid species from southern Brazil with long tubular orange red flowers in summer. The foliage is also long and narrow, to about 8ins long, 2ins wide, and heavily felted white beneath and on the stems. 

So far this has not been at all damaged in my unheated tunnel and other reports tell us that it’s a good hardy species for at least southern England. 

(If you doubt this remember that several other good garden plants come from a similar part of the world, Salvia uliginosa, Abutilon megapotamicum, Alstroemeria psittacina and Passiflora caerulea for example.)
£24