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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Winter-Interest Plants -Reply

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, MAllen4543 wrote:

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

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

I think we've got a major clue to this mystery buried in the locations.
Buddleia didn't do a thing in Iowa for anyone I knew, the summers were
too warm and the winters too cold and dry.  In the Pacific NW, on the
west side of the Cascades, where our climate is very "British", it's
actually turning into a major weed, displacing native species.

Kay Lancaster    kay@fern.com
just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8
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