What's more current than the weather?

[xoxoxoBruce]

You had me with Buddleja, so off to Google/Wiki.

Buddleja, or Buddleia /ˈbʌdliːə/ (also historically given as Buddlea), commonly known as the butterfly bush,[5] is a genus comprising over 140[6] species of flowering plantsendemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Well that's no help, gimme images….



Oh, pretty, but your description of carnage doesn’t jib with those images, they look like the would just lie flat.

Then this…



Oh, now I get it... it's like the aftermath of a George Bush.