Plant identification please

Lemonadedrinker

Hi everyone, ive been given this plant can anyone identify it for me. Big thanks in advance for your help. 

Lemonadedrinker

the purple flowered plant please 

Davesnave

A buddleia.....Lindleyana possibly....but now my eyes are all funny!

https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/plants-for-general-conditions/buddleja-lindleyana.htm

Lemonadedrinker

Great thanks for your help 

Black_Cat2

First saw the flowers and thought it was a hosta (flowering) but then saw the leaves. Clearly not a hosta and agree with what you already know... a buddleia 👍

twopenny

The flowers (if they belong to the plant) are not buddleia which has tubular flowers ending in a flat open flower.

I can't tell you what it is but it's tender, probably an annual.

Davesnave

twopenny said:

The flowers (if they belong to the plant) are not buddleia which has tubular flowers ending in a flat open flower.

  I have grown Buddleia lindleyana and it certainly looked like one to me, both flowers and leaves. Did you follow my link?

[Deleted User]

I agree with @Davesnave , B Lindleyana, i have one here and the OP's picture looks the same.

mufi

[Deleted User] said:

I agree with @Davesnave , B Lindleyana, i have one here and the OP's picture looks the same.

When it comes to gardening (and most other things, actually) I always agree with Davesnave.

Davesnave

mufi said:

[Deleted User] said:

I agree with @Davesnave , B Lindleyana, i have one here and the OP's picture looks the same.

When it comes to gardening (and most other things, actually) I always agree with Davesnave.

Be careful; I'm entering the age now when many people take to reading the Daily Express, placing plastic flamingoes in their front gardens and trimming bushes into disturbingly unnatural shapes!

twopenny

I've never seen that before and didn't grasp the flower shape from the link photos. Very intriguing. Does it seed prolifically like the standard one and can the bees and butterflies get access to the nectar in those long flowers?

Dave it's only if the flamigo is solar lit  at night that you need to worry.