Re: Buddeia bush -Reply
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- Subject: Re: Buddeia bush -Reply
- From: "* D* <d*@ados.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:52:29 -0700
Yes, yes. Please, please.
Zone? Me too.
Rachel - NW Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: SUSAN SAXTON <SS@Schwabe.com>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Buddeia bush -Reply
>Your zone and climate please. I'd like to try
>this myself.
>
>>>> "Miller, Devon" <dmiller@kilstock.com>
>07/31/98 06:42am >>>
>I don't know about dividing, but when I cut by
>buddelia back this spring
>(a different cultivar than black knight), I stuck
>some cuttings in some
>dirt outside for a lark and they all rooted and
>are now flowering. I
>gave them exactly zero care.
> ----------
>From: Wanda09548@aol.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Buddeia bush
>Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 8:26AM
>
>Short question, I planted two buddelia's two
>years ago, and they are
>magnificent, but are now to large for the bed
>they are planted in.
>Black
>Knight, and I forget the name of the lavender
>one. Can I divide them?
>Will
>they crump if I do? I do cut them back in early
>spring, resulting in
>more
>branches and lots more buds and flowers.
>Would spring be the best time, or can I dig up,
>divide with the root
>ball, in
>fall, to let them settle in before spring?
>Any suggestions would be welcome! I'd hate to
>kill them because I
>didn't know
>the right way! The divisions would be moved
>to a new bed now being
>prepared,
>on the same side of the house where they are
>living now, the heavy clay
>soil
>is being prepped the same way with lots of
>compost mixed in with some
>gypsum
>to facilitate drainage.
>I have not fertilized in any way for two years,
>but I do use Osmocote
>on the
>nearby bulbs, just sort of work in all around.
>I'm sure the buddelia's
>got
>some of the Osmocote from the nearby soil.
>I live in St Louis, Zone 5-6
>Thanks!
>Wanda
>
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