Re: Buddleja
> "William A. Grant" wrote:
>
> Not one of these international plants that I have grown failed to get
> infested with a bug that messed up buds so that few flowers ever made
> it to maturity. I have tried everything (no spray) to inhibit the
> damage to the buds with no success. In London they grow with great
> abandon in the cracks of the walls along the full length of the subway
> from Heathrow, only disappearing when the cars go underground.In some
> places they are thugs. I give up. bill grant
Hi Bill
At least in the cooler central and southern districts of NZ Buddlea
grows with all the abandon you describe in London, too often popping up
where it was not invited.. It can be a pestilential weed here,
especially in natural bush areas where it is a serious invader along
open areas such as watercourses. I have never see any pest on it here
either.
My suspicion is that it does so well in these areas mainly because they
have a relatively cool summer climate (It seems to be very winter-hardy)
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
