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- Always remove summer lilac along with roots
- Why you need to remove a summer lilac along with the roots
- Dig up the summer lilac: That's how it works
- Tips
If a summer lilac is not removed, including its roots, it will come back
Always remove summer lilac along with roots
There are many reasons why a summer lilac must give way to its location: Be it because you want to redesign the site, the plant does not like it anymore, or it just got too big and therefore takes up a lot of space. When digging up the summer lilac - which by the way is not related to the common lilac! Incidentally, you should always remove the rhizome, otherwise the stubborn plant will keep repelling it.
Why you need to remove a summer lilac along with the roots
In particular, Buddleja davidii is difficult to fend off in this respect, but drives this species reliably even after a hard winter, in which all aboveground plant parts are frozen back, reliably repeatedly. The roots of the summer lilac are therefore very vital and will always look for a new way to the earth's surface after capping the shrub. If you want to finally get rid of the summer lilac, you can not avoid clearing the rootstock.
Dig up the summer lilac: That's how it works
The best way to do this is as follows:
Then you should fill the resulting hole with fresh mother earth. Before you put another plant in this place you should - if possible - wait another year or two. This is especially true when the summer lilac was previously at this location for a long time. In this time, the soil of the plant has adapted, so that other plants due to the composition of the living things in the earth will have difficulties with the growth.
Tips
If the summer lilac is not only dug up, but also implemented, cut it back by only about a third.