Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: How fast does Buddelia (Butterfly Bush) grow?, 1 by Lily_love

Lily_love wrote:
Hi Lisa,
With Buddelias; their growth is pretty rapid as stated. My garden is relatively small, I prune mine to keep in scale with surrounding plantings. Also when I keep these relative small, for me at eye-level. I can continually deadhead spent blooms to stimulate new blooms all through the growing season. When these get too tall, all the spent blooms turn brown/black and look rather un-kempt (to me). I just give them a "severe haircut" that's rougly 2 feet tall above ground (in Feb. - prune them too early that may stimulate new growths before last frost in the area, and tender growth can be damaged by frost).
Then I will come back with a hand-pruner, and make sure the cut is just above a leave-node.
One of my hybrid Buddelias last summer and its frequent visitor(s). :