Perhaps I should have spent some time in the garden last month. Or over the last three months. Garden cleanup tasks should probably start in February, but it is cold then. I spent the last weekend of February skiing, not gardening.
As a result, my buddleia already looks like this:
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| Eight feet tall and leafing out |
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| Not just leaf buds, but leaves! |
Rather, it
looked like that until I dug out my loppers. Now it looks like this:
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| 2 feet tall and stumpy - but with a few leaves |
Sorry for your wasted leaf-making effort, buddleia. Maybe next year you'll hold off until March, OK?
Hi-ya! You are now the Bruce Lee of gardening! I think all pruning should come with goofy sound effects. You'll have a better buddleia thanks to your excellent chop job. :o)
ReplyDeleteYour plant looks a few year old with the bark. My buddleia was trimmed down in the fall, after remembering that it started growing last February. (It popped up without warning - I knew not what it was or where it came from. Now I have a buddleia.) Reminds me - I need to write about it...again.
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Ha! I just took out my butterfly bushes, too. I'm trying to decide whether to try to take them out permanently. I have such a love-hate relationship with them. Also just went through a similar battle with forsythia. So far, the spring cleanup has been very violent.
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