Pruning buddleia monty don

Buddleja davidii are the popular garden Butterfly Bushes and they need to be pruned at the right time.

We take you through the steps of pruning your Buddleia and explain why spring is the best time to prune.

This section is for the Buddleia davidii types only.

The Buddleia davidii are the proper ‘Butterfly Bushes’ though the others also attract butterflies – and bees etc.

If you don’t prune Buddleia each year, it will get out of hand and untidy – just like the wild ones that sprout up wherever they can.

Incidentally, this rather plump healthy looking flower, is as a result of proper pruning of the Butterfly Bush.

Without pruning, the flower would have been smaller, and get progressively smaller as every season passes.

This group of shrubs flower on new growth made in the current year, so it is to your advantage to prune the shrub well to produce many flowering shoots.

These shoots that emerge as a result of properly pruning the Buddleja will have an upright, then arching habit of growth – totally unlike the ‘wild’ Buddleias that are seen on vacant building site – or g

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