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Can anyone identify this tree?
steve231
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Hi,
Can anyone tell me what this tree is? And how to get rid of, its got quite a few big roots/trunk and mixed with quite chunky stemmed thorny weeds.
As you can tell i'm not a gardener.
Any help would be appreciated Thanks Steve
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Its a Buddleja.
Dig it out, if you don't want it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Britains number one weed :- Buddleia ! Destroyer of buildings and rapid coloniser of wasteland .
Good for butterflies and other pollinators , but just too invasive .
Cut down and just hack the roots out with an axe .
So that new gardeners aren't put off growing Buddleja I thought I'd just mention that while B. davidii does produce a lot of seeds which drift on the breeze, nowadays there are lots of very attractive new varieties which are semi or totally sterile and will not spread and be a nuisance.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But you have to watch some of those sterile types, the bees and butterflies bypass them en route for the real thing.
I babysat a couple last summer while a friend was on holiday. They were largely ignored by insects
In the sticks near Peterborough
I saw one growing on the side of a building about 7-8 stores up in Manchester centre last year or the year before
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Last edited: 09 January 2018 18:43:36
http://japaneseknotweed.com/buddleia-faqs/
As nice a shrub as it is ; real control is vital .
Not normally a problem in the average garden when pruned annually , but the speed it colonises wasteland is pretty impressive .
That's worth bearing in mind Nut
... we have Buddleja Miss Ruby outside the sitting room window ... thankfully it's covered with bees and butterflies each summer
http://mygarden.rhs.org.uk/blogs/graham_rice/archive/2011/09/18/buddleja-miss-ruby-new-award-winner-from-gardening-express.aspx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fast growing, and easy to chop down. You may find the roots a little stubborn. You can cut back hard and possibly keep to a more pruned manageable shape. I had a dozen biggies in the garden, and if I wasn't so pushed for space would have kept as the butterflies absolutely love them. Plus the colour and smell of the flowers is quite intoxicating.