Chookie
29-12-2005, 11:38 AM
In article <Piesf.25135$mz2.2094@trnddc08>, sherm >
wrote:
> do butterfly bushes ( buddelia ) require any dormancy to allow it to
> grow proper and set flowers?
They grow perfectly well in Sydney, where they never become completely dormant.
Incidentally, it's Buddleia or Buddleja.
Have you thought of getting your friend a cactus?
--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)
"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.
wrote:
> do butterfly bushes ( buddelia ) require any dormancy to allow it to
> grow proper and set flowers?
They grow perfectly well in Sydney, where they never become completely dormant.
Incidentally, it's Buddleia or Buddleja.
Have you thought of getting your friend a cactus?
--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)
"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.