Pure accident - BUT...

...spot on schedule?

A wee bit moist. It was the weekly "Jerraday", so we had a wee waddle about the garden seeing what was photogenic.
After he'd gone I remembered last week he told me there was one tiny bunch in flower, about the size of a thumb end joint.
Out of idle curiosity I shot it after he'd left, and also noticed it was the, mottley, best of the few shots I'd taken today.
BUT  -  It was also, both, accidentally & coincidentally, exactly the last two years, to the day since the last time it hit they stage AND in the same state of flower. The area of apparent none-flower is a combination of two factors:-
1. Flowers in that ares still unopened.
2. A degree of cover by the new growth which will not flower until this time next year.
Toward "back-end" many of the now trailing flower sprays will be ignominiously hacked off leaving the new "traily bits" for next years flowers.
If you drive throught the country and see any uncut Hawthorn in flower, about now, you may see a similar trailing format of flowers. The beauty of Budleja Alternifolia, however is two pronged:-
1. NO thorns.
2. A heavenly scent you can nearly smell down on the footpath.