1-naphthaleneacetic acid, as used to be included in STRIKE, has been banned because apparently it's persistent. I found STRIKE to be fairly...
I can get them to flower at a year old, but this stresses the plants and they’ve sometimes died straight after flowering. Generally, I allow two...
I though I’d share a photo of my new Buddleja globosa cultivar, just flowering now for the first time. The flowers are primrose-yellow rather than...
You can still prune Buddleja davidii types now, but don't leave it much longer. It should regrow and flower by late August, especially if you feed...
Did you check the compost in the pot for grubs? Acers in pots are very vulnerable to vine weevil grubs over the winter. They eat the roots. The...
I understand the frustration. But it's a fait accompli - peat will be banned for amateur horticultural use. There's no point going over old...
Although carbon-captures makes the headlines, the motivation behind the peat ban is the protection of a fragile and endangered habitat. Peat-bogs...
I can't believe people are so irresponsible as to try and find ways of circumventing the ban on peat in horticulture. Aren't gardeners supposed to...
Normally I use John Innes seed and cutting compost, but in a hurry a bought a small bag of B&Q Peat-free seed compost. It looks okay, mostly...
I wonder how many people have actually grown the new Buddleja hybrids that are currently in the catalogues. I have been growing 'Rocketstar',...
July and no Buddlejas? Outrageous! Here is a Buddleja forrestii I grew from seed I obtained from Sichuan.[IMG]
Fasciation.Quite common in some flowers, it's a growth defect where separate shoots/buds become fused together. Possibly caused by a hormonal...
Pretty sure they're hoverfly larvae, one of the species with terrestrial rather than aquatic maggots. So many species, I couldn't even begin to...
[IMG]Buddleja aff. alternifolia, the type from Tibet once called Buddleja tsetangensis. It's being sold as B. x wardii KR4881, but a trawl...
I can't tell much from the photos, to be honest. Recently, councils have been using Liquidambar (or Sweet Gum) trees for street planting - and...
After B. globosa flowers it does put on new growth, which has the next season's flowers buds, dormant and not visible, at the apex of the stems in...
It's so hard to identify plants from photos. My first thought was a mullein (Verbascum) of some sort - Verbascum 'Royalty' looks to have the same...
[IMG]Buddleja 'Orange Sceptre'. A B. stachyoides X B.tubiflora hybrid. I'm not sure it's very hardy, but it's grown more than metre from seed...
Buddleja colvilei is quite hardy, as Nigel says. And it gets hardier with age and size. Typical for these mountain Buddlejas, it actually needs...
An authentic Buddleja myriantha for comparison. More like B. albiflora than anything else.[IMG]
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