Buddleia

Are buddleia hard to maintain?
i have herd they get extremely wild.

A friend has a tiny buddleia in a pot.
and that seems fine

 

They aren't hard to maintain, all I do to mine is cut them hard back every autumn( i mean hard, to within an inch of their lives!!).

Every spring they are back and full of life!

 

I agree with glenw, Tay. just cut them down in Autumn.

 

Glen. I seem to be following you around. You are of course right. The only hard bit is if you let them go rampant and have to chain-saw them. :D

The white ones are a bit more manageable then the purple.

 

I tend to prune mine about now(no not in the dark :D ) For me this this prevents them being to leggy.
Some things are best leggy but not buddleias :D

 

Hello Tay and welcome to GC!

I brought a rooting from Bucks to here and it went great guns and then one day after two years old and 10 foot high it collapsed at the base with honey fungus! My sister, Kedi-Gato from Germany on GC, was visiting here and had admired it (two of my four neighbours ... there are only five of us in the community ...have cuttings, now huge shrubs now). My sister gets up earlier than I do and went out with her tea and was shocked to find the entire shrub lying on the ground ... so much so she came and talked to me through the bathroom door to tell me about this tragedy! :rolleyes:

Having doused the soil with Armitilox I later planted an evergreen tree, Myoporum, native to Australia.

I can only assume I brought this Honey Fungus from the UK with me to here as this disease is not known here. :eek:

Lovely shrub though.

 

I go along with roders. I pruned mine last week down to 3". I do that every year.

 

Don't think it matters. i once cut down one that was rampant in July. By September it re-flowered.

 

Mine is taken down a bit in Autumn then about now it gets the works ie.cut well bk.or it gets rampant :D

 

Thanks!

 

Show it who is in charge - reduce growth by 30%
like kids they can get out of hand unless you keep them in check. :D

 

Yessir

 

"Don't think it matters. i once cut down one that was rampant in July. By September it re-flowered."


I take this one step further and for one customer prune them progresivly month by month in order to delay flowering and give a longer show of colour.

 

That is a useful tip. Thanks P. G.

 

Agree with most. They are rampant and you will struggle to damage them. I cut them/trim in the Autumn then cut them to the ground now.