Can you idenitify this plant?

Can anyone identify what plant this is? i thought it was lavateria but absolutley no flowers!! any ideas? it was in a pot for 4 yrs whilst we moved house then saved up to re-do the new back garden, i finally got to plant it in april and since then has shot up 8 inches but no colour!!

 

Looks like Buddleia (Butterfly Bush). It should flower a bit later in the year.

 

I`d agree with Buddleia.:gnthb:

 

Definitely a Buddleja (that's with a "j" by the way :D ) - Ant: it should flower later in the Summer if the growth gets large enough.

 

It can be spelt either way actually.:gnthb:

 

If the word 'Buddleia' is Latin in origin, then it will be 'i' as 'j' doesn't exist in the Latin alphabet.

 

It's great being vastly ignorant of the "proper names" at times. To me it is a butterfly bush.

 

Pronunciation is another difficult area. I once listened to Stefan Buczacki waffling on about something called a Camel-i-ya for quite some time before I realised he was talking about a plant I knew as a Cam-eeee-lee-ya, rather than an unusually Sloaney version of something which spits and can be either Bactrian or dromedary. When challenged, he said that the plant was named after a bloke called Kamel and that was good enough for him. Probably a case, I think, of being both technically right and a total plonker.