Chimera

There's a chimera in the devil garden, and I don't mean the gargoyle on the fence. This butterfly bush has both white and purple flowers growing out of the same trunk. They grow on distinctly separate stalks, and I've now marked the origin points of the white ones so I don't prune them completely away by accident, as I have some years. I'm not really sure whether this is a true chimera, or just two different buddleia varieties that were planted too close to each other long ago and now have completely melded trunks. But I love the idea of having a chimera! (even one that isn't a fire-breathing hybrid monster)