Last year I planted Buddleja 'Miss Ruby' in front of our west-facing sitting room window. It's an absolute beauty - covered in long-lasting magenta flower spikes and attracting lots of butterflies. It doesn't grow too big so is ideal for smaller gardens and doesn't set seed.
I cut my budleigha back hard every year that I had it and it still grew massively. it was also overgrowing the fence on my front garden making it difficult to go past without bashing it.
It's been planted a year, I cut it hard back in March and at the moment it's about 4ft tall and the same across and flowering well. It's label says that ultimately it could reach 6ft x 6ft which will be great as it's in the front garden in front of the sitting room window - we'll be able to see it and all the butterflies it attracts from the comfort of the sofa
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Last year I planted Buddleja 'Miss Ruby' in front of our west-facing sitting room window. It's an absolute beauty - covered in long-lasting magenta flower spikes and attracting lots of butterflies. It doesn't grow too big so is ideal for smaller gardens and doesn't set seed.
http://mygarden.rhs.org.uk/blogs/graham_rice/archive/2011/09/18/buddleja-miss-ruby-new-award-winner-from-gardening-express.aspx
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I cut my budleigha back hard every year that I had it and it still grew massively. it was also overgrowing the fence on my front garden making it difficult to go past without bashing it.
I put a lot of effort into my garden.
It's been planted a year, I cut it hard back in March and at the moment it's about 4ft tall and the same across and flowering well. It's label says that ultimately it could reach 6ft x 6ft which will be great as it's in the front garden in front of the sitting room window - we'll be able to see it and all the butterflies it attracts from the comfort of the sofa
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.