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buddleia

Diane says  "I find it is better to wait until spring to cut Buddleia
back to
the ground.  If I do it in the fall, they invariably die."

	I agree with cutting back in the spring rather than the fall.
The branches catch a little bit of the snow we sometimes have in
Illinois (not a nice consistent cover like in Wisconsin, however).  But
in the spring when I do cut them back, I don't cut all the way to the
ground--but just six inches from the ground or so.  Only once (a very
cold winter) did I lose a butterfly bush, and it was a white one (I
think the white are less hardy, being farther from the species).

Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F?
e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu



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