'Miss Ruby' is one of the relatively new butterfly bushes on the market. The shrub is named for its floral color, which is a rich, deep pink. The individual blooms nestle into the flower spike like so many tiny rubies.
Frankly, I'm surprised the namers of 'Miss Ruby' butterfly bush didn't call it 'Ruby Tuesday,' instead (although there is already a Helenium plant named 'Ruby Tuesday'). That way, whenever I thought about the plant, the Rolling Stones song by the same name would have been stuck in my head. Not to sound paranoid or anything (Who, me?), but the plant namers do that sort of thing all the time, to torment me....
Why do you think they named a certain shrub 'Moonshadow' euonymus? Every time I pass by that plant in my garden, I get the old Cat Stevens song stuck in my head. Then there's the new rose of sharon cultivar called 'Blue Chiffon.' What American TV-viewer from the '70s could say that name without immediately hearing a little voice in one's head singing, "If you think it's butter, but it's not..."? It's amazing what one can summon from the caverns of one's memory....
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