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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Winter-Interest Plants -Reply

In a message dated 03/03/98 01:32:52 GMT,  tmilosta@SCNC.BAS.K12.MI.US writes:

<< Susan - can you explain limbing up your Buddleia - I twisted together
 the stems on mine last year to try and acheive a more tree like
 structure but it didn't look that good. Also my Purple Knight seemed to
 stay green through this winter, but I cut it back this weekend because I
 read that was what I was supposed to do - was this a mistake since it
 had not really died down?
  LAst summer was my first experience with this plant and I was not very
 impressed, but maybe that was because it was adn immature plant. I also
 read that they should not be fertilized as that would promote leaf
 growth and not flowers - what has been your experience? Tamara

  >>
Tamara, I think you are trying to be too careful with your buddleia. I planted
one 2 years ago and it is doing very well and doing what it is supposed to do,
namely attracting the butterflies.

When the flowers are dead I cut them back to the next shoots. Also if it
begins to look untidy (which they do) I just cut off the offending branch. All
this during the flowering season. In the autumn I am really hard on it and cut
back all and everything until it looks neat and tidy for the next season.

Mary in England  where the gales have returned and knocked the daffodils down.
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