Buddleja davidii (common names: Butterfly bush)

I think you are panicing, it looks to me as if it will flower albeit a bit later.You can them off a bit in the autumn and then hard in the spring they are very tough and reliable don't worry.

Thanks - you are very reassuring! Tell you later if it does flower. Usually, I don't prune things hard enough, this year I pruned this very hard as well as a cotinus which had obviously not been pruned at all for years. It has some new growth which looks O.K. to me. It's showing in one of my photos in the back of the border. I didn't have to worry about flowers on that!

My mother in law had an 8' Weigela in her small courtyard garden. Too big for the space, so after flowering I 'pruned' it for her! The largest stem was 6" in diameter and this was cut down to ground level. After a week the new shoots appeared on it, and it's shooting away quite happily

oops pressed the wrong button!! Just shows that pruning is good for the plants

Hiya You've done nothing wrong. Buddleia are usually hard cut back, and I do mean hard, in February as the flowers are formed on new wood. Your plant will flower when it is supposed to - late summer, when it provides much needed nectar for butterflies

thanks Saina - I guess I did panic a bit because I had cut it further back than I normally do! I think there are some flower buds forming at the moment!

And it's looking lovely!!!

Very nice Popeymike. If I was closer I might ask for a cutting - white buddleja beautiful

Thank you- no idea how it got here-you cant beat plants for free!

Pruning hard in spring is the right thing to do to it! Even back to a twelve inch stump!!

My RHS Encyclopaedia says that Buddleja davidii prefers alkaline soil. I am just wondering what Ph your soil is - do you know? Just a thought. It also says 'grow in fertile well-drained soil', so I don't think that your soil will be too rich...

I've had one on acid soil too so I don't think that's going to be the problem. If it's only been the last couple of years, it might be lack of water and then too much! - lol

Poor Buddleja! All you can do really is what you have been - and IF we have a hot summer, give it a drink! At least you have the consolation that it recovers each time. What colour is it?

Wow such pretty colour! Iv planted4 butterfly bushes in my own garden in my Wild Garden Area &cant wait2see the colours they are? i dug them as seedlings from 4flower pots where theyd seed not last yr but yr b4!

wow a White Buddleia how pretty :) I Planted 4 Pink 1s last year & they only had few flowers :( so fingers Xd cos their bigger bushes this year il see more :)

Wow,
that looks beautiful.
I have a new one it's tiny compared to yours.
Do you prune it and if so how much?

Me too. We like it because we need things that grow fast to fill our garden and give screening.

Yes, that as well and I am hoping it grows in front of this shed a neighbour has at the back and the window faces my garden!!
My cat keeps having a run for it and jumps in the window lol.
So it will block the view and block the way for my naughty cat lol

check out the buddlea photos on my garden site. Yes pruned in autumn/winter lots but not in summer. Now growing again. Looking forward to it flowering again.this one is at least 7 years old. I moved it when I first moved, it was proberly a year or so old then.

Good Grief! I want one...

Great Photo, Chris. I can almost smell it!.

Mine are just coming into full flower. They get very big and grow fast which suits us in our garden.

I think I will have flowers soon, but will the flowers stunt the growth I am trying to get it to grow as bushey as possible so it gets it's shape for next year

Ooh yeah I can't wait until mine flowers now :)

Gorgeous

They just keep growing flowers and all. It Take off dead flower heads and you will encourage more flowers. Prune next March, cutting bach new growth to within about 4 ins of old wood. It sounds drastic, but after pruning it will go like a train.

Whats the addy for your gardening site?

I have Nanho Blue and this one sure looks like it. Of all the Buddleias I have these have the biggets flowers.

Thanks Mike, that's helpful.

That looks brill

Thanks Clarice. It was new last August and has absolutely grown like a train this year. It's at least 6' tall.