Can someone help me to find out a name of a rare plant? I've seen a plant, but don't know the name?

Question

If anyone is a plant expert, maybe a few details about this particular plant will help...It's a tree-like plant with light-blue, very fragrant flowers, foliage like that of large rosemary. Maybe even a type of bush.... I'm so clueless, but I really need to know what this plant is!!

I know that I didn't add too many details, but I don't really have too many. I know that it wasn't growing in it's native area. I saw it in the Golden Gate Park Botanical Garden. They have plants there from all over the world. All I can say that it was the size of a small tree, slender trunk and branches, the foliage was not big and leafy, it was small and kindof like rosemary, but bigger, and the flowers were about the size of dimes and grew mostly in clumps on the ends of the branches. HIGHLY FRAGRANT!

Answer 1

I'm thinking it might be Buddleia - the leaves are greyish green and lanceolate, sort of like scaled-up Rosemary. The flowers are often strongly fragrant - on Buddleia Davidii, they smell strongly of honey.

Answer 2

Check with a master gardener in your area, or at a local nursery. See if your area has a Identification Key set up (for example, if you live in California, use the Jepson's Guide, but this only IDs native plants).

Answer 3

Is it a garden plant, or a wild plant?

If it is a garden plant, contact your local county Cooperative Extension office.

Answer 4

You need to give more info... Where did you see it (state)? Where was it growing (planter, landscaping bed, stream-side, forest, open field)? How tall was it? Did it have woody stems?

Add details, I will check back.

Answer 5

the info is not enough...you search in :
www.greenmannursery.co.uk/plants.htm

Answer 6

lilac, or jacaranda maybe?