{"id":7149,"date":"2015-03-08T01:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T08:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2015-03-07T08:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T15:08:25","slug":"tips-for-growing-buddleia-butterfly-bushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/tips-for-growing-buddleia-butterfly-bushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Growing Buddleia Butterfly Bushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a good time to prune your buddleia down to about 12-30 inches. This will encourage a good shape and more flowers.<br \/>\n<a title=\"buddleia davidii\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4554502447\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3018\/4554502447_d0f7ae18f7.jpg\" alt=\"107\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular and easy to grow flowering shrubs is the Buddleia. The most common shades of flower are the various blues of Buddleia Davidii but you will often see the white form in hedge rows and embankments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Habits<\/strong><br \/>\nBuddleia starts flowering from mid-June and continues through to Autumn<br \/>\nThe long sprays of flowers are attractive to both gardeners and insects.<br \/>\nBuddleias are quick growing reaching 6 feet high and wide depending on the variety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation Tips<\/strong><br \/>\nBuddleias are happy in sunny position with well drained soil.<br \/>\nAvoid water logged soil but they can survive very dry conditions.<br \/>\nThey can be propagated from semi-ripe cuttings in Mid-summer or hardwood cuttings November to March.<br \/>\nGrow in a large container if you wish. The restriction will make a smaller shrub but flowering will not be impeded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Varieties to Grow<\/strong><br \/>\nBuddleia White Profusion, Royal Red or traditional Buddleia davidii Empire Blue.<br \/>\nBuddleia davidii Black Knight is a deep purple colour<br \/>\nBuddleia davidii Pink Profusion not surprisingly has huge deep pink blooms.<br \/>\nBuddleia globosa is not one of the traditional Butterfly Bush types but has round ball shaped orange blossom.<br \/>\nBuddleia alternifolia a weeping shrub make excellent standards and needing gentler pruning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pruning Tips<\/strong><br \/>\nDrastically cut down your Buddleia in spring to about 12 inches from the ground. (For the back of borders you can prune to 2 foot and get flowers starting higher up the bush)<br \/>\nThis treatment encourages a fountain of new growth with arching branches capable of producing many larger flower spikes.<br \/>\nPrune off all the dead and faded flowers to encourage new blossom until late autumn.<br \/>\nDead heading saves energy that would go into seed production and prevents unwanted self sowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a good time to prune your buddleia down to about 12-30 inches. This will encourage a good shape and more flowers. One of the most popular and easy to grow flowering shrubs is the Buddleia. The most common shades of flower are the various blues of Buddleia Davidii but you will often see the white form in hedge rows and embankments. Growing Habits Buddleia starts flowering from mid-June and continues through to Autumn The long sprays of flowers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/tips-for-growing-buddleia-butterfly-bushes\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}