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Buddleia suggestions/queries

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  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    Dark knight is my favourite buddleia and I have it growing up tall in the back garden. I think I need a lighter flower in the new site as the backdrop is a dark shed. I'm not even completely sold on it being a buddleia either.

    Globosa is the first buddleia to flower here. It starts in the end of may - start of June. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    If you have room, this is a lovely Buddleia.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think there's a slight confusion between the slightly earlier globosa and the late one which is weyeriana. Sungold is a variety of that.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    I didn’t know there were so many varieties of buddliea - does anyone grow the common weedy purple one? I think I have one of those as well as a white one. Do they self seed?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The common one seeds very readily. That's why it appears in all sorts of places  :)
    The cultivated ones are better behaved. Easy to propagate from cuttings.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    I try to deadhead the purple one but am scared that it’s still seeded when those flower heads dried.
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    I had one of those @punkdoc and it just never grew. I'm not sure why because I know they can be very vigorous but it just sat there for three or four years at exactly the same size before keeling over. It's a good suggestion but I think I want one I can hack back yearly without worrying if it won't flower the same year.
  • Fairygirl said:
    I think there's a slight confusion between the slightly earlier globosa and the late one which is weyeriana. Sungold is a variety of that.
    Sorry that was me I thought Globosa flowered later, just got them muddled in my head. I have the later one, sungold it's a weyeriana.  
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