Q: I have recently planted a butterfly bush in my backyard and it's growing rapidly. When is the right time to prune it? It currently has beautiful flowers and is great for attracting butterflies, but ...

Q:All of our buddleias are infested with a little worm. It is smooth and white with a black head. It eats the flower buds from the inside out so that the flowers never form. Last year, we sprayed Bt ...

BUDDLEJA is a popular shrub, loved for its flamboyant flowers. However, if you neglect to prune your buddleja, you won't get the best displays. Here's when to prune your buddleja - it's earlier than ...

Butterfly Bush is one of those shrubs that gets the best of a lot of us. We never can truly anticipate just how huge they can ...

There's one showy, pollinator-friendly summer bloomer that loves a good late-winter haircut — prune it right, and it'll ...

Butterfly bushes (Buddleja davidii) are known as one of the best plants to attract a variety of butterflies to your yard thanks to their large, nectar-filled flowers. As a bonus, their pink-purple ...

My second job of the morning was to prune this old buddleia, which had become very woody and unproductive lower down. I started by reducing the overall height of the plant by snipping back to new buds ...

Pruning throughout the year is a crucial gardening job and can help to promote new growth and even a second flowering. The aim is to remove dead, diseased and damaged branches and stems which can also ...

Q: I have a butterfly bush (Buddleia)in the herb garden that is now over 15 feet tall. The weight alone is probably going to damage the bush, so should I just close my eyes and cut it back to a ...

Q I have been abroad for a couple of months and a large buddleia, growing against my garden fence and not pruned for two years, is now massive. If I cut it right down now will I kill it? Marcus ...

If I gathered up all the billions of garden questions people have asked me over the years, via email, at the annual neighborhood barbeque, or even as I’m lying on the operating room table waiting for ...