Recently, I wrote about deadheading Buddleia through the late summer, and the principle of using the frequent dead-heading to “nibble” your way back to the framework of old wood, while also taking off the top-heavy growth, thus preventing breakage.
I had a question from a Patron (“Hi there!”) about how to create that framework of old wood: that is, what do you do, if your Buddleia is quite a young plant.
Luckily, here's one I am creating now!
This plant is two or three years old, it's still quite skinny, and the Client wants to keep it fairly high, for privacy during the summer, when they are sitting out on their patio.
Over the summer, it had reached a good 10-12' in height, and I have been dead-heading it regularly, as per the earlier post: if we take a closer look at the top of the right-hand section, you can see the truncated stems...
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