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Buddleia

p16peterkp16peterk Posts: 1
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I have pruned my buddleia shrub down to around 18 inches, the bark has stripped and no buds showing below where I cut it. Will it grow back?. Peter K

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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Gosh you were enthusiastic. Impossible to say, they are quite vigorous so you might be lucky. Just a case of wait and see.
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    I often cut my buddleja down to knee height. 
     However I would be concerned about it losing its bark.  When did this happen?  Can we see photos please?

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





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I think buddleia and cockroaches are likely to be the only things to survive a nuclear bomb!  Give it a little more time.
  • Robert WestRobert West Posts: 241
    Normally I chop the whole shrub back to about 3ft in early autumn. That encourages the plant to produce buds all over the stems that are left. Then I prune down to the lowest pair of buds on each stem in late February.

    Now the relevant part... Then a month later I'll go back and do the same again as often new buds have appeared even lower down. I've found they will often just shoot from random places if the usual nodes have been removed. I think you could saw it off an inch above the ground and it'd probably grow back!

    Never lost a buddleia yet. Not sure many have! 

    Like others, bit confused about the bark issue. Pics would be useful. 
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