I have the same problem. I purchased a perfect looking Black Knight buddleia last month, and within a week the leaves had become mottled and deformed. I returned to the garden centre today with a photo of it, and the manager gave me a refund saying she'd cleared her entire stock of buddleia off the shelves as the same thing was happening.
She thinks its a bad batch from the supplier, but this is also happening on an older buddleia I already had.
@few32 it sounds like a widespread problem. Can I ask where you bought the affected plants from? I was thinking of planting buddleia but not if it involves this type of problem! Was the manager saying other people were buying her stock to replace their sick plants or that she had cleared her plants from sale, because they were sick? Sorry my head is a bit fuzzy this afternoon!
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She meant that she'd taken her entire buddleia stock off sale as it had all been affected by the same thing, so even if you went to that garden centre now you wouldn't find any to buy.
She said she'd removed the mottled growth in the plants and was going to see how they fared. I think I'll do the same.
Can I ask the people with this problem if the leaves start out ok then turn mottled or grow like that from the start. I’ve had several of these for years and never seen this problem.
Does it grow right if you cut all that off?
Sorry if this has been asked before, not much time lately to read through.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
This is not from the UK but there is nothing else out there. I just hope it isn't some new and hideous disease introduced to these shores by importers or by insects heading north as things warm up.
@Ceres. I don’t think it# that, that’s just mould. I remember some years ago there was talk of trying to eradicate buddlias from the U.K. I wonder if it’s something been introduced to kill them off. I've probably drifted off into the realms of fantasy now 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Im afraid I’m no longer a member of the RHS, but perhaps one of us who is could make some enquiries of them? Maybe someone there knows, or can research it?
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She thinks its a bad batch from the supplier, but this is also happening on an older buddleia I already had.
She said she'd removed the mottled growth in the plants and was going to see how they fared. I think I'll do the same.
I remember some years ago there was talk of trying to eradicate buddlias from the U.K. I wonder if it’s something been introduced to kill them off.
I've probably drifted off into the realms of fantasy now 😀
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.