Un-named buddleja seedlings/cuttings may cost little - decent named varieties are around £10.00 and upwards - maybe the reason you don't like them very much is because the ones you've bought previously are of poor quality.
Or maybe you won the lottery or are a city banker ..................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I couldn't bear to put something like buddleja somewhere for just a year. What would happen to the butterflies and bees. They'd have to relocate
I've just planted a new area with shrubs that theoretically will do something of interest every month of the year. Included in there are several buddleja: globosa, weyeriana 'Sungold', agathosma and officinalis.
I already had a few elsewhere (davidii, buzz and salvifolia) but I like them because they just meet all my criteria for being in my garden so I decided to add some more and take advantage of the fact there's such huge variety and they do most of everything I want.
For some reason I have never had much success with Buddleia.I have 'Blue Chip' in a pot just now and for 2 years it has barely flowered (or grown much at all for that matter!).The first year it was lovely.Yet I see huge specimens of Buddleia growing out of cracks in chimneys,gutters and old brickwork etc.with no food and very little water.
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ive just got rid of a buddleigha that went completely massive after 3 years. the roots were really deep and it took a long time to get it out. I would never plant one again. having said that, I don't know what sort it was as I was given it...
in its place I have lots of foxglove and other bee and butterfly friendly plants.
defra considers it a weed. david Attenborough says we all should have one.
It is a weed when it sows itself in bombsites and railway sidings and Tube walls and other funny crevices but in a garden it can be beautiful and does attract and feed lots of butterflies who then have the energy they need to lay eggs and keep their cycle going.
They do need proper pruning every spring - not difficult of onerous - to keep them to size. I have just been out dead heading one of mine and that wasn't hard either. It depends on the amount of time you have and your willingness to give each plant what it needs to keep a balance in your garden.
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I love my Black Knight buddleias which are about to erupt into flower. Very dark, blackcurranty purple. My inherited white one looked incredible last year before I moved it to make way for the new lawn and pond etc. It had a huge 'trunk', but wasn't that difficult to move considering it's size. It was smothered in bees and butterflies the last two summers.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Un-named buddleja seedlings/cuttings may cost little - decent named varieties are around £10.00 and upwards - maybe the reason you don't like them very much is because the ones you've bought previously are of poor quality.
Or maybe you won the lottery or are a city banker ..................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
on a plus side, I've finally worked out quotes.
I couldn't bear to put something like buddleja somewhere for just a year. What would happen to the butterflies and bees. They'd have to relocate
I've just planted a new area with shrubs that theoretically will do something of interest every month of the year. Included in there are several buddleja: globosa, weyeriana 'Sungold', agathosma and officinalis.
I already had a few elsewhere (davidii, buzz and salvifolia) but I like them because they just meet all my criteria for being in my garden so I decided to add some more and take advantage of the fact there's such huge variety and they do most of everything I want.
For some reason I have never had much success with Buddleia.I have 'Blue Chip' in a pot just now and for 2 years it has barely flowered (or grown much at all for that matter!).The first year it was lovely.Yet I see huge specimens of Buddleia growing out of cracks in chimneys,gutters and old brickwork etc.with no food and very little water.
ive just got rid of a buddleigha that went completely massive after 3 years. the roots were really deep and it took a long time to get it out. I would never plant one again. having said that, I don't know what sort it was as I was given it...
in its place I have lots of foxglove and other bee and butterfly friendly plants.
defra considers it a weed. david Attenborough says we all should have one.
sorry david !
It is a weed when it sows itself in bombsites and railway sidings and Tube walls and other funny crevices but in a garden it can be beautiful and does attract and feed lots of butterflies who then have the energy they need to lay eggs and keep their cycle going.
They do need proper pruning every spring - not difficult of onerous - to keep them to size. I have just been out dead heading one of mine and that wasn't hard either. It depends on the amount of time you have and your willingness to give each plant what it needs to keep a balance in your garden.
A weed is only a plant growing in the wrong place.
I love my Black Knight buddleias which are about to erupt into flower. Very dark, blackcurranty purple. My inherited white one looked incredible last year before I moved it to make way for the new lawn and pond etc. It had a huge 'trunk', but wasn't that difficult to move considering it's size. It was smothered in bees and butterflies the last two summers.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...