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Buddleia wilting

horseshorses Posts: 1
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My buddleia, in large pot, is wilting despite ample water.  What's wrong?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2022
    Hello @horses and welcome to the forum 😊 

    What sort of compost is in the pot?  Some composts eg multi-purpose are too insubstantial to retain enough moisture for long-term planting like a shrub. 

    I would use a very large pot with John Innes No 3 loam-based compost with a few handfuls of MPC added just to lighten it a bit. 

    A shrub like buddleja, with a lot of upright stems, needs quite a bit of moisture for its roots to pump up to the tips of those stems. 

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





  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    As above really but yy buddleia in the ground have began to show signs of drought as well as we haven't had any meaningful rain for a very long time. It's a combination of the summer heat and drying winds around here. 
    Mine are in shady spots which reduces their need for water quite a bit but if they begin to droop then you should give them a good soak.
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