PRUNING buddleia | Cutting back a butterfly bush

In this video guide from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, Ashley Edwards shows you how to prune buddleia. He advises on the best time to prune a butterfly bush and how to get your buddleia into good shape. He also explains how to prevent wind-rock damaging the plant and demonstrates how to make cuts without leaving the bush open to infection and disease.
0:00 The best time to prune buddleia
0:27 Planning for pruning the shrub
0:45 Cutting out the deadwood
1:09 Pruning back to the main trunk
1:18 Removing rubbing branches
1:30 Preventing wind-rock in tall buddleias
2:17 Testing to see if a branch is dead
3:09 Encouraging more buddleia flowers
3:29 Preventing infection
3:57 Final tidying up
4:03 End result
Find out more about pruning buddleias at: www.gardenersworld.com/how-to...