"P.Burley" wrote in message

Right i have a butterfly in my garden which was put in by the last
owners and is far to big for such a small garden.

Prune it, as hard as you like. It will grow again and you can keep it
quite manageable by pruning each year.

Not my buddleia -- I cut it hard back in spring and the thing up and died on
me. Now I'm left with a big stump that I have to somehow dig out.