tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763202821851669331.post7089852796065436612..comments2023-07-05T01:59:32.752-07:00Comments on Sage Advice: Buddleia - The Butterfly BushThe Eclectic Arkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02226742314698298031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763202821851669331.post-80975371754372568732011-09-04T08:58:41.957-07:002011-09-04T08:58:41.957-07:00Care with this plant as it is very invasive and wi...Care with this plant as it is very invasive and will corwd and eliminate all your other gareden plants.<br />I grew two from cuttings and let them lose for about 4 years - too big this year and I am digging them out and planting dwarf varietes.<br />The stumps are being replanted in a field about 300 yrd away and nature will do as she seems fit with them. The scent is good but the bush can become an unwieldy monster !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763202821851669331.post-17486898956078683392010-06-26T15:35:47.581-07:002010-06-26T15:35:47.581-07:00I like it actually, but you just need to know that...I like it actually, but you just need to know that you have to watch and keep control of it. If it were among my roses, I'd have a problem, but growing randomly on some barron spot..why not? It'll attract the butterflies and what the harm. I don't have a green thumb so I'd be a happy with anything blooming that I didn't have to tend to...just control. Love this post.<br><br>HaupiHaupihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07718303599068705699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763202821851669331.post-69028221198550915822011-01-01T15:18:32.067-08:002011-01-01T15:18:32.067-08:00Very informative post, thank you! I've just bo...Very informative post, thank you! I've just bought a cottage in the Blue Mountains (Oz) and discovered a buggery buggery Budleia out front, right now starting to bloom! The local council has published an online list of invasive weeds but this seems not to have inhibited neighbourly cutting-swapping traditions, according to the nurseryman who identified my rather elderly shrub! (I did wonder why I was seeing so many butterflies, a rare sight certainly in Sydney these days!), with the result that native bushland is being threatened by creeping lantana, agapanthus, coriopsis, Queen Anne's Lace, you name it! The cutting and root swappers are probably in the same category as the cat-lovers who swear their moggies (generally between two to four per house round here) are different from the rest of the predatory cat family that occupy their lazy days picking off the small bird population! <br><br>The advice I was given is to judiciously prune and deadhead (and dispose of the seeds) the offending, shade-providing, flutterby-attracting Budleia, while in the meantime plant a flowering native right in front (have selected the beautiful Blueberry Ash) so when it's established, I can root out the Budleia!!!<br><br>We have a bush regeneration method here called the Bradley Method, where a weed-elimination involves progressive stage-based weed removal alongside simultaneous substitution with native grasses, ground covers, under storey, etc. It's labour intensive in the bush (requiring teams of volunteers), but a wonderful technique for the domestic garden given weeds are finally eliminated given you are replacing them with non-weed varieties with similar habits and values.mugseynoreply@blogger.com