TheScullster wrote:
Hi all

We have a budlea in our front garden and can see two more from the window.
Ours particularly seems to be flourishing in this hot weather.
Also have loads of butterflys, which I believe are peacocks and painted
ladies.

So, Is it Me Or are budleas doing particularly well this year?
Also is this down to the hot dry weather?

TIA


Phil#

You see them growing in the most unlikely places, including on the side
of buildings, or out of roof gutters, etc. I remember talking to a
builder once, who told me how if you pulled one out, you could follow
its roots all around huge areas of the building, finding it up every
hole, nook and cranny.
My guess is that they have amazing root networks particularly well
geared to finding moisture, no matter how deep or how far they need to
go for it.
Mine (only 2 1/2 years old) is disappointingly low on flowers this
year, but something tells me it may be because I should have pruned it
last year - but didn't.
The neighbour's are obscenely showy.

Cat(h)