To Kill A Buddleia

 

 

I wrote recently about formative pruning of Buddleia, and I used the phrase “...there is practically nothing you can do to kill them!”

I've had a couple of humorous messages from Patrons (waves cheerfully “Hi, guys!” ) on this subject, and one plaintive plea asking if there is a way to kill off one that you absolutely don't want.

Funnily enough, I do have an example: in one of “my” gardens, I am regularly asked to cut down a Buddleia which is sneakily growing in the piece of neglected garden up behind the garage, where it is casting shade on the solar panels. It's a self-set plant - well, no-one would deliberately plant something between their solar panels and the sun, now would they? - and it was flourishing, absolutely flourishing, the wretch: so every few weeks I'd be asked to chop it down....

 

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