How To Prune Butterfly Bushes // Get BIGGER & BETTER Flowers & Better RESULTS
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2022
- Want to get MORE from your Butterfly Bushes?
Join David in one of our trial grounds in early spring and find out how you can prune your Buddleias to get BIGGER & BETTER flower performance and enjoy even more from your Butterfly bushes. - Навчання та стиль
Great tips! Just planted my first Miss Violet Butterfly Bush this year… great knowing all this info going into the Fall! Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you Mr. Wilson. It’s going to be a lovely day outside today so I’m going out to trim mine back.🌷💚🙃
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Great information... thanks so much!!
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Thank you another great video, with lots of helpful hints and tips ,,. I did have a big one but it took over my garden , so it had to go , but I would love to have one of these medium ones ,,. Loved the colour of this too ,,. Xxxx 🌷💗
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You answered my Butterfly Bush question!!!
This was the best explanation I have heard yet! Thank you !
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Bonjour Mr Wilson, this helps me a lot with the garden I have mind, thank you. Never knew that butterfly tree could be pruned like a bush. It looks wonderful! In France there are areas next to the rivers where it is considered as invasive, they are huge. Anyhow it is loved in gardens as medium size trees like lilas. I have discovered your channel yesterday, it is quite didactic and it responds clearly to the questions I have each spring about pruning certain plants. I’ve been learning by myself to take care of the garden and it happens that I’m overwhelmed by the vigour of plants like sauge that extended too much because I didn’t prune them. Thanks again.
Thank you. With some of the big ones, you might (if you wish) try pruning them twice in the same year. First in spring and then later in early summer, this makes them bushier and shorter. It sets the first flowering date back by a few weeks, but you will get a shorter, more compact plant with flowers closer to eye level.
Thank you! Best wishes from France
Your video gives the best explanation 👌, thank you! I am a new gardener, with your video is the best for me, thank you!
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Enjoyed learning about those beautiful plants❤❤😊😊
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David,…this has been another very informative video. I’m in Canada🇨🇦 on east end of north shore of Lake Ontario - Zone 5A/5B. I had been growing the ‘pugster blue’, ‘dark knight’ and ‘miss ruby’ varietals of the buddleia family. They grew well for me and put on a strong showing and gave off just wonderful smells (aaaaaahhh). I would prune them in late winter/early spring as they flower on new wood. The problem I had (past tense) with them was that you never were sure they were still alive in spring as they are sooooooooo slow to break and, as such, left holes in your landscape whilst the spireas, barberry and hydrangeas were all coming into leaf so I removed them. Now I’d like to re-introduce them to my landscape as the ‘pros’ outweigh the ‘cons’ and I miss their beautiful flowers and scents. My question is, is there anything one can do, preparation wise, to expedite the speed by which they will break leaf faster in spring than, say, end of June here?
It is interesting that you've noted the fragrance on Buddleias. Most people mention the color, the butterflies that they bring in, the deer resistance, drought tolerance etc. and miss the fragrance so it is good that you've picked up on that.
In colder areas Buddleias are regarded as "die back" shrubs, the tops die back but they sprout and grown back out each spring from the crown. So the trick is to keep the crown and roots alive during the winter.
The ones you mention are all good varieties and if you want to try them again here's a couple of pointers......
1/ Buddleia davidii (the predominant parent species) grows in rocky, gravelly hillsides and mountain sides in C. China up into Tibet and when I lived in the UK I used to frequently see seedlings growing in cracks in walls, railroad sidings, urban waste ground from demolished sites etc. so they do best in really sharp drainage and not particularly rich soil.
So when planting, choose the best drained, sunniest site you have, add plenty of extra grit and gravel and raise it up a bit too, and sweeten your soil with some lime also - they like it on the calcareous side and don't add any extra fertilizer.
Water them until they get established and thereafter minimal watering - because once they get established they are remarkably drought tolerant.
By now you may have noticed that I am telling you to grow them "hard" and not overly lush!
In guiding you how to grow most other plants, I am going to be to telling you to fortify the soil with extra organic matter add ferts. etc. but in cold areas NOT buddleias!
They will get all the nutrition they need from average soils and with supplemental watering and fertilizing they are going to grow big and lush but also perhaps soft and prone to winter kill.
Then in late Autumn mound up extra mulch around the crown to act as an insulator, this would be removed or raked back in spring.
Prune them only in spring - removing top (dead) growth back to just above the mulch level where the new growth buds will sprout. Autumn or winter pruning exposes the hollow stems to moisture that freezes and causes more die back, so that's why I suggest spring only.
In addition, if you watch this video on Mophead Hydrangeas ua-cam.com/video/V5Ez7_9ztT4/v-deo.html you will see (towards the end) how I mound up mulch to protect the base and crowns on remontant mophead types - the principle is exactly the same. And if you view it around the 10-11minute mark you will see how I am suggesting some other top growth protection methods too (although if you can keep the crown alive, you don't need to bother with this).
Hope all of this helps.
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Thanks for your information!😊
Now it’s late March and my buddleia has already have new shoots on the end(top area) of stems. So I wonder if it’s okay to prune my buddleia stems in this situation like you.
Yes, this is a good time to prune them (even if they are showing a little growth)!
In fact, in a way this is helpful, because it shows the difference between healthy live growth and any dead parts of shoots that may have been knocked back during the winter.
This will help to guide you, so that when you trim them back to strong healthy bases, they will quickly start growing out and in no time start making strong shoots that are going to carry those big gorgeous, fragrant flowers that the butterflies, pollinators (and us) love so much 😉👍✂️😊 💚
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Great advice David 👌 I'd very much appreciate if you could answer a question - I've a well established buddleia ( davidii, if my memory serves me), anyway it was perfect at the start, however now it has outgrown it's position ( totally my early lack of knowledge), could I move it around this time?
Please & thanks in advance David.
Thanks. They can be moved, but older established specimens tend to put down long, straggly roots (which is why they are so good at withstanding dry periods and growing in inhospitable places), and it is hard to keep a "rootball" of soil around them. If I were you, I would try to prune it hard (like in the video), and then prune the shoots again in summer to make them break and bush out again. This will set the flowering back by a few weeks, but it will also keep it smaller and bushier.
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Stay safe, healthy & happy 👍👍🙂
How do you keep the flower bed free of weeds? Does Butterfly bushes need a lot of sun light?
We mulch the beds, and pull up any seedlings before they get a chance to seed.
Buddleia, do better in sunny sites, they will grow in shadier places, but are shorter, more compact and flower better in sunny places.
So i love royal red and black knight. Says its hardy to z 5. Im in NE Iowa z 5a. We didnt have much snow cover just brutal winds. Its the second week of May and I see no growth whatsoever, is it dead from the brutal cold without no snow insulation?
Thanks for reaching out. We have often seen apparent dead butterfly bushes sprout from ground level, so keep an eye out down there.
The top branches may be dead, but the insulation effects of the earth might just have kept the "crown" of the plant alive.
Going forward, this makes a case for mounding up mulch around the bottom part of the plants in late Fall.
Then in spring, this mulch would be raked back. The dead tops of these "die back" shrubs would be removed to make way for the new growth that sprouts from the "neck" of the plant or from underground.
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