Last week was our 22nd anniversary of moving to Hibernia and residing on the Irish Riviera.
We brought a wheelie bin full of perennials and shrubs with us. One of the shrubs was a newly rooted Buddleia cutting that I had took and succesfully got it to strike and form roots and shoots.
I have made many more plants from this shrub and I have never cut it back heavily like you are supposed to do in March.
There is always an abundance of purple flowers and 🦋 at this time of year
Another fine specimen. You certainly have the touch, Dave.
ReplyDeleteThanks JayCee. They are easy to strike roots if you taking cuttings in September and over winter them in a cold frame, greenhouse or polytunnel. I have seen Buddleia colonize Temple Mead train station in Bristol and old derelict sites. There's a tricolour Buddleia that I must buy and propagate new plants.
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful. I guess that I never realized how big they can get.
ReplyDeleteHi Debby. They grow 8 to ten feet high and originate in China. Myself and the butterflies love them.
ReplyDeleteI want to get nettles growing by ours...so food plants and plants to lay eggs on for the butterflies and other insects
ReplyDeleteSounds perfect Permaculture GZ. Flora in harmony with Fauna.
ReplyDeleteOurs must have been over 40 years old when we moved here so yours has quite some life left in it yet. We love them too.
ReplyDeleteWe should collect them shouldn't we Tigger? Sedums are good Butterflies attractors too. When I work across the bay on the island I see lots of Butterflies and Moths and wildlife like pheasants and hares. Who would think an oil terminal would be such a brilliant natural habitat?
ReplyDelete"What a magnificent bush!"...as the bishop said to the actress.
ReplyDelete"I keep it well trimmed your grace"
DeleteMy daughter has one the same that I planted in her yard in 1998 when I was also living there. I also planted a white and a pink but they haven't survived. The pink died quite quickly, the white went several years ago. Now the purple fills the space. I think. I shall have to check. The survivor might be the white one.
ReplyDeleteThey are easy to propagate from cuttings River.
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