Buddleia Davidii - not flowering

Which ever one you get, [if you do], FC, the golden rule with Buddleia, because it flowers on new wood, is to cut it back in March to about 2 or 3 buds on the old stems. That encourages new wood and you should get the flowers.
It's a very hardy plant and will grow on old building sites, very poor soil and even in the gutters of houses! Mine is a 30 year old plant which has been cut back every March as I said and while it's not quite in bloom there are plenty of flowers coming. It's probably the only Shrub in the garden that I don't feed and yet has a trunk on it of around 10 inches in thickness.

 

I think yours looks good as a standard. We keep one as a standard, as it's outside our kitchen window, and we can then have a flower bed underneath.

We cut it back (as per ARMANDII's instructions) and it has no trouble flowering but it does tend to flower later than the bush versions of the same one. I've just noticed it has started producing flowers which are about 1" long and very green at the moment.

I took this photo a short while ago (from the kitchen) and we prune it just above where you see the woody parts.

 

The sun is shining now

There's no shade from it on the greenhouse as it's due east of the greenhouse and slightly north of it.

I've just spotted that the male pheasant is on the top of the bird feeder and one of his harem is on the ground . They still spend a lot of the day in the garden but not as much as they used to when Oscar the cat was around. They trusted Oscar and he kept the other cats away.

 

Thanks all

I do want to trim it a bit next year anyway, as its shading the polytunnel and the lawn a bit more than I want, so I will give it a good haircut next March.

I had a closer look at it today, and there are loads of flower buds starting to form, so I am wondering if Aesculus has hit the nail right on the head - hopefully time will tell