On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:51:15 GMT, "Gilly" wrote:

"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.

I had a similar problem with a very old Buddleia. It was quite easy
to remove the stump (albeit a bit physical!). The roots were rotted
and with a bit of digging around the main stump they broke off easily.
It's brittle wood at the best of times.