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JennyC wrote:


Hi Rod,
Can you get the photo onto a web page so that we can see it ?

Or could you describe it in a bit more detail:
a) when does it flower
b) colour of the flowers
c) leaf shape
d) whereabouts do you live

He mailed me the JPEG, and I think that it is the common form of
Buddleia davidii - quite a nice bush of it, too.

My advice was to cut out 2/3 of the main stems as needed to make
space (and use them as firewood!) and to prune other stems back
to a couple of decent buds/shoots/live growth. I have never cut
one back to ONLY very old wood, and don't know how well they will
regrow.

Other people may give different advice, of course :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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