Buddleia In A Pot

For example a butterfly bush that is purchased in a 10 inch diameter container also referred to as a 3 gallon pot will prosper if transplanted into a larger container that s at least 24 inches in diameter and hold at least 10 gallons of soil.

Buddleia in a pot. It has long fragrant lilac flowers. Place the pot in full sunlight and water regularly. Can a buddleia butterfly bush be planted in a large pot. 2 gallon in pot blue chip buddleia dianthus has it all an easy care nature attractive blooms and sweetly fragrant flowers grow dianthus in full sun and well drained soil flowers from mid summer to frost.

Pruning generally not needed but may be trimmed in spring. The solution is to grow a new one from cuttings about every third year. The flowers are sterile so this plant will not self seed around the garden or neighbourhood. I have found a spot with full sun out the front near my new trough one of my blogs.

Make sure the pot has a good amount of drainage holes to allow the roots to breathe. I bought it form poundland and the packaging shows it grows to 2 metres. Use a pot deep enough to contain the roots and heavy enough to weigh the plant down. Larger buddleja cultivars will only last a few years in a pot even a large one.

Another solution i am experimenting with is to remove the plant each year prune the roots back a few inches and then partially replace the compost. Buddleia x alternifolia unique is a compact shrub that flowers from july through to october. Growing a butterfly bush in a pot is very possible if you can provide this vigorous shrub with a very large pot. The butterfly bush buddleia davidii is a beautiful fast growing deciduous shrub with masses of blossoms long spiked trusses that bloom from summer to autumn.

Expect to transplant the shrub into the ground in the second year for it to continue to thrive. Its flowers come in many colors though butterflies seem to prefer the lavender pink mauve of the species to the white and dark purple cultivars.