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Butterfly bush
Hi folks
I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! Chris |
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Butterfly bush
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:51:03 -0700 (PDT), Chris
wrote: Hi folks I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! Chris They're dead, what do you think? |
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On Jul 20, 11:56*am, Brooklyn1 Gravesend1 wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:51:03 -0700 (PDT), Chris wrote: Hi folks I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! Chris They're dead, what do you think? If I could rely on what I think, rather than asking experienced gardeners for advice, I would not have asked. If you have experience, please provide a suggestion (although your comment does lead me in a certain direction, obvious answers are quite often wrong). I'd rather rely on experience than intuition. Thanks, Chris |
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Butterfly bush
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, Chris wrote: Hi folks I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! Sure, cut off all the dead and even some of the live new growth if you want to shape the plant - Buddleias usually respond favorably to pruning most any time of year. Also deadhead the spent blooms to encourage more. |
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Butterfly bush
Chris wrote:
I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! i don't think it really harms anything unless the bush is in a really windy location (then it might thrash itself on the dead stuff but really i think you'd have noticed that by now)... so my vote is for leaving it alone. songbird |
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"Chris" wrote in message
... Hi folks I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! After flowering is a rough guideline for pruning plants, but if you decide to do an immediate trim whenever it needs doing (or indeed whenever you think of it), you won't do any major damage to any plant I can think of. Don't prune now, but do an intermediate trim now :-)) |
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:46:21 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given
wrote: "Chris" wrote in message ... Hi folks I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! After flowering is a rough guideline for pruning plants, but if you decide to do an immediate trim whenever it needs doing (or indeed whenever you think of it), you won't do any major damage to any plant I can think of. Don't prune now, but do an intermediate trim now :-)) Removing dead parts of a plant is not pruning. Dead portions of any plant need to be removed immediately. Pruning is the removal of live portions of a plant (for various reasons), and for that there is an appropriate time/method. |
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"Brooklyn1" Gravesend1 wrote in message
... On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:46:21 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Chris" wrote in message ... Hi folks I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till Fall? Advice needed, thanks all! After flowering is a rough guideline for pruning plants, but if you decide to do an immediate trim whenever it needs doing (or indeed whenever you think of it), you won't do any major damage to any plant I can think of. Don't prune now, but do an intermediate trim now :-)) Removing dead parts of a plant is not pruning. Dead portions of any plant need to be removed immediately. Pruning is the removal of live portions of a plant (for various reasons), and for that there is an appropriate time/method. Yawn. |
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I am exactly the same! I sometimes feel that I have my head in the clouds!
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smuggo is a fat ugly nonce
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There is nothing wrong in seeking advice. Generally I would advise you to remove the dead stalks, it will improve the shape and look of your buddleia. Generally speaking you should prune (cut back) your plant when it has finished flowering. If you cut it back quite hard it will encourage a bushy habit and will keep your shrub in a nice shape. You will then be able to enjoy a mass of colour next year!!!!
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