Buddleja davidii 'Monum' syn. Buddleja davidii 'Nanho Purple'

Buddleja davidii is really tough and most can take hard pruning each season down to about 30cm from the base. It flowers on current seasons growth, and if you don't prune the flowers just get higher and higher until they are too high to enjoy them. I'm planning to do all mine this weekend leaving a few buds at the base to form new arching stems 👍🏼 #tips #todo

#newgrowth

Don't have room for buddleia though I think there are smaller ones now

I did mine last week @richard.spicer.7906 Be prepared to put some graft into it, some of the branches were really tough. They are THE BEST shrubs for photographing butterflies though 😀damn! No butterfly emoticon, so here's a bee instead🐝😂🐝

PS - lovely DOF in your pic x

They do get big Joan - I've actually got a dwarf one too that's been growing well in a pot for the last 5 years - probably no taller than 1 metre. @joanboston

Thanks Lynda 😊 I've got a couple of very big ones - better dust off my 'Big Bertha' loppers out 😂 . Thanks for the bees too - can't believe there is no butterfly emoji! @lyndag

Lovely pic.

Thanks Katie 😊👍🏼 @brightcolours

@richard.spicer.7906 done my silver anniversary one last weekend, I hard prune it every year which keeps it controlled & flowering for the butterflies 😊 @joanboston there are some lovely mini varieties for pots now, butterflies love it! 👍🏻

I probably could have done mine too a couple of weeks ago, weather has been so mild it wouldn't have worried them. I'll have to look out for pics of yours, with some butterflies too 😉 @ellenmarygardening

Just pruned my black knight back for the first time. I hope it is ok. It looks so brutal in the tutorials.

Found a new colour variety growing in my jungle. How can any butterfly not resist this? And why is there no emoji for a butterfly?! This is outrageous!! 😆

🐝 will a bee do for now ? 🐰

So whats the rabbit 4 debs? 2 eat his buddleia😂😂😂

Rabbit is like my trademark 🐰

Aww ok sorry☺️

Love this one

Thanks @debs69 ! That'll do nicely for now 😀

My buddleia had a visitor today a butterfly got it on camara 👍😀 the 🐝🐝 hog it normally lol

#buddleja #butterflybush