BUDDLEJA is a popular shrub, loved for its flamboyant flowers. However, if you neglect to prune your buddleja, you won't get the best displays. Here's when to prune your buddleja - it's earlier than ...

Butterfly bushes (Buddleja davidii) are known as one of the best plants to attract a variety of butterflies to your yard thanks to their large, nectar-filled flowers. As a bonus, their pink-purple ...

It can be difficult to know when and how to prune the plants in your garden. Some can only be pruned in summer after flowering, while others are happy with a spring tidy-up. If you have a butterfly ...

For many plants, pruning in late winter can ruin your flower display. But for these summer bloomers, it'll have the opposite ...

Today is Q&A day. Q: I have a butterfly bush that has gone berserk. It is over 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and is too big for my small backyard. But I love it. Can I keep trimming it back or should ...

Q:All of our buddleias are infested with a little worm. It is smooth and white with a black head. It eats the flower buds from the inside out so that the flowers never form. Last year, we sprayed Bt ...

According to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), pruning involves the selective removal of certain parts of a plant to facilitate better growth. Each shrub and flower will require pruning at ...

Now is a vital time to prune certain plants to make sure they bounce back better than ever next year. According to the Royal Horticultural Society, pruning is a selective process of removing certain ...

Q: When should I prune a butterfly bush? And how do I go about it? A: Here’s a general rule for pruning shrubs: If the shrub bears blossoms on new growth made just before flowering in late spring and ...

Barbara Bissinger of Pleasanton spotted a Western tiger swallowtail enjoying a moment on her Buddleja davidii ‘Black Knight’ butterfly bush. Buddleja does well in our climate. It likes a well-drained ...