Question

Do any off you have a buddliea in your garden? Everyone tells me it’s classed as a weed? But I think it’s a bloody pretty weed lol

Answer 1

I have two one white, one dark purple. The bees and butterflies love it. I've just had a different one delivered today which has bright orange ball shaped flower heads.  

Comments

Globosa, lovely plant. Early spring food for bees and butterflies.  

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@xavierxaviera6778 Sounds interesting. Will it still attract the butterflies and bees?  

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@roman21 Hoping to get it in the ground in next couple of days. Its arrived packaged very well in it's own little pot too.  

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@lei12688 @katykatya7 Jackson I'm sure it will. Got it from a plant nursery who had an Ebay shop.  

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It flowers a lot earlier than other buddleia. But unlike others they need pruning after flowering as they flower on the previous years growth.  

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@roman21 thank you for that advice I didnt realise that.  

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I made the mistake one year when I had a few different varieties in pots together and pruned them all in early spring. That year the globosa didn't flower.  

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@ambiguity Patey I'm hoping it grows as fast as my other buddleia

Answer 2

A blimmen expensive weed lol I have bought a few different varietys for the garden. I love watching the bees too  

Answer 3

Shared again Thanksne & Wear

Answer 4

Karlie. I had one and it was lovely but grew so fast and big I got rid. I wish everything else would grow like this . I think you can get miniature ones x

Answer 5

Just cut a twig off and stick in the ground by 6 inches.  

Answer 6

I have it’s beautiful & attracts lots of butterflies

Answer 7

Buddleia attract butterflies. Definitely not a weed.  

Answer 8

Weeds are only flowers in the wrong place x

Answer 9

I have one that’s grown into a tree. I trim it annually but it comes back better each time. Great for the wildlife too.  

Answer 10

It is an invasive plant, yeah.  

Answer 11

They only say its a weed because it self's seeds everywhere if not managed

Answer 12

No such thing as a weed ;) chemical companies literally invented that word js. A weed is a plant just like all the others, if you like it plant it!  

Answer 13

I love it, if you keep it in control, as when my parents moved into their house it was invading a beautiful gum tree and slowly killing it

Answer 14

I love them, and the  butterflies they attract x

Answer 15

Allbran with fruit

Answer 16

We have purple and white Buddleia. The butterflies love it

Answer 17

I have one in my garden and certainly wouldn't class it as a weed! Full of butterflies and bees in the summer. It's beautiful

Answer 18

Bees favourite

Answer 19

There's a purple variety in Portsmouth that self seeds *everywhere* in the city, but only that one.  

Answer 20

No its not a weed in anyway. Its beautiful and the butterflies love it . I have a white purple and a rusty color one. I love them so pretty. X

Answer 21

Not a weed

Answer 22

Definitely not a weed. Attracts butterflies and is gorgeous when in bloom

Answer 23

I have 2 Its only a weed if you dont want it. Easy to look after and great for butterflies in asummer and birds in winter. I prune mine right down in March and they grow as high as ever by summer

Answer 24

I have one, it's huge. Butterflies and bees love it

Answer 25

It's great for the insects

Answer 26

Butterflies love it

Answer 27

We have two and they look great. Only thing is they grow so fast!  

Answer 28

A weed is just a plant growing in a place it's not wanted I have ten in my garden all different kind and colours in summer my garden is full of bees and butterflies

Answer 29

Alan Titchmarsh says a weed is a plant in the wrong place! Certainly not a weed in my garden

Answer 30

Attracts butterflies and it's beautiful x

Answer 31

Attract all the butterflies.  

Answer 32

A weed is only a plant growing in the wrong place! Love a buddliea

Answer 33

Yes I do & it is in the wild flower, butterfly  & bee  part of my garden. It can grow as large as it wants to encourage them into my garden.  

Answer 34

They're all originally from cultivated plants brought over from China. The plants growing in the wild shouldn't be called weeds, they just escaped the confines of of our gardens. They're just free living plants, sounds better than weeds.  

Answer 35

I love buddleia , love the colours, got this in my back garden , love watching the bees on this , amazing

Answer 36

Butterflies love it! cut it back in winter it grows huge every year

Answer 37

Great for butterflies and well worth having.  

Answer 38

Have tried the Orange Ball one

Answer 39

Couldn’t live without mine. Brings me so much pleasure watching the birds on the feeders on it and end of summer they eat the seeds. The amount of butterflies and bees it attracts is wonderful. Everyone should have at least one  

Answer 40

No 1butterfly bush a lovely plant

Answer 41

I've got one in a pot. someone was giving it away. it's got lots of new shoots so I'm hoping it gives a good show. and brings the butterflies in  

Answer 42

I hate it when the flowers turn brown.  

Comments

When you dead head the flowers as they fade, it encourages the 2 shoots either side, they'll just be a bit smaller.  

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@endrin I remove some and leave some for the birds.  

Answer 43

A weed is a plant that is growing in the wrong place!. as long as you enjoy the Buddleia wheres the harm. just deadhead as the flowers turn and that will encourage more flowers to grow.  

Answer 44

Very invasive had to dig ours out grew massive

Answer 45

Called butterfly plant but must be controlled otherwise keeps growing into a tree