Buddleia part blown over - please help

you have pruned it perfectly. aye its called buddleja davidii, looks good to me m8 its should come away perfectly, you wont know until next march, april. ive got about 5 of them to tend to i cut them back every year even lower than you have, but good luck anyway bud

 

To Clueless1, Has bean counter and Joey2201, thank you all so much for the feedback and advice.

Has bean, I will definitely cut the existing roots away and you've put my mind to rest because I was a bit worried that there were hardly any good roots left anyway.

I'm a real newbie to gardening (apart from cutting the grass) and this is the most technical task I've undertaken so far but I have to say I've really enjoyed it. It took me over 4 hours in total to cut up and bag the buddleia (filled 10 big green bags!). I lift weights in the gym when I can after work and am pretty fit but I was really surprised how physically demanding this was. Love the physical tired feeling though - very satisfying.

Mac.

 

Thanks for all your help Marley (not least for helping me to post the pics :o I'm really not a technophobe - honest!). Definitely enjoying reading around the forum and will stick around and post more pics of my buddleja in the spring to show how well it's doing - now there's optimism for you! :thmb: