How to promote flowering on butterfly lilac - Tips for a long flowering period

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• How to promote flowering on butterfly lilac - Tips for a long flowering period
• Summer Blooming Butterfly Magnet
• How to promote a long flowering period
• Tips

The butterfly lilac flowers in midsummer

How to promote flowering on butterfly lilac - Tips for a long flowering period

When the classic lilac (Syringa vulgaris) fades, a butterfly lilac (Buddleja davidii) is just starting to bloom. When exactly a butterfly bush is blooming and how to influence a long flowering season can be found out here.

Summer Blooming Butterfly Magnet

He takes his time until he enters the garden stage. Under normal weather conditions, the butterfly shrub puts on its flower dress in the middle of summer. When, from July, its large flower spikes unfold in beautiful colors and exude a beguiling scent, the ornamental shrubs are swarming with countless butterflies. Until well into the autumn, the flower show lasts until the first cold nights put an end to the magic.

How to promote a long flowering period

With the following measures you favor the fullness of the flowers and have a stabilizing effect on the flowering time:

Since a butterfly shrub always blooms on this year's shoot, you can cut without hesitation in early spring, the branches rigorously. As long as at least two eyes remain on the shoot, the shrub willingly drives out again and puts on its buds. As a rule of thumb, the stronger the pruning, the larger the flower spikes.

Tips

By consistently cutting off the wilted flowers on the butterfly bush, you prevent invasive propagation in the garden at the same time. Buddleja davidii is assigned to the neophytes because it produces myriads of seeds. In order to multiply the summer flowering, the cuttings method is more promising anyway.