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Pruning Budflier

The Buddlier flowers have gone past the colour, for instance white or blue, stage
Is it ok to cut off all of the dead(?) heads and how far down the branch should be cut?

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Do you mean Buddleia? 
    If so - yes, cut the spent heads off, down to the next leaf joint, and you'll often get some more blooms, albeit smaller ones  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    If you are able to watch last night's Gardeners' World programme (maybe on the BBC iplayer), Monty demonstrated doing this near the end of the programme (around 57 minutes) :) .
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