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Yellow huddle is leaves

bronnieathomebronnieathome Posts: 7
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I would like to submit a photo of my buddlea bush. It’s two years old and part of a tri- colour Buddlea plant which has never been severely trimmed. There is no sign of Aphids and the white flowering part of the Bush has the biggest healthiest flowers.
 Please advise
 many thanks
 Bronwyn Adie
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Tri Colour Buddliea are three separate plants together in one pot,  but do put the photo on the site, click on the little square icon that looks like a postcard with a mountain on it.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bronnieathomebronnieathome Posts: 7

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The ones in the first 3 pics look as if they're desperate for water. Maybe the white flowered one is out-competing the others.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    The white bit is getting first dibs at all the food and water and the other two are parched and starving. You would need a pot of about a cubic metre to support that amount of top growth properly. Is there no way you could get them in the ground?
    At least give them a really good drink, not just a dribble, but a soak, and when they look a bit better give them a feed of seaweed or a multipurpose feed.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The whole plant looks thirsty to me so give it a good 10 litre bucketful of water, poured slowly so it soaks in, every day for a week then reduce to every other day unless you get a heatwave.

    The foliage on the white flowered one is green and therefore more efficient at photosynthesis than golden or variegated or paler foliage which explains the extra vigour.   Make sure you dead head all the flowers on all three regularly and maybe take out one in two of the white flowered stems back to their base to balance things up. 

    Next spring, cut all the stems back to a low pair of leaves and give them a generous dollop of slow release fertiliser such as pelleted chicken manure or blood, fish and bone and an occasional liquid feed of tomato fertiliser to ensure good flowering.  Don't let them get thirsty in their growing and flowering period. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • bronnieathomebronnieathome Posts: 7
    Thank you so much. That is really helpful.
    i Will get to watering it more rigorously as of now. Hopefully we will notice an improvement.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I find buddleja responds well to clematis feed (we have a buddleja between two clems) so I’d try giving yours a handful of that now and as has been said, generous watering. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bronnieathomebronnieathome Posts: 7
    What is clematis feed please?
    i will certainly get some if you tell me the name.
     Thank you
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's fertiliser for clematis which are notoriously hungry plants and produce loads of flowers if happy.  It's on the packet.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I use this or similar 

    https://www.yougarden.com/item-p-100076/vitax-clematis-feed-900g#:~:text=Vitax%20Clematis%20Feed%20is%20a%20balanced%20feed%20with,potassium%2C%20to%20encourage%20vigorous%20growth%20and%20prolific%20flowering.

    You can get it from most garden centres, B&Q or online from various sellers. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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