PRUNING BUDDLEIAS
TO GET SHAPELY SHRUBS
It is surprising to sec so many badly-grown specimens of the beautiful shrub buddleias. It is so often allowed to grow lanky and weedy, which is absolutely unnecessary when pruned correctly. To grow this shrub to perfection it should bo pruned most severely in tho early spring. Cut it back to within six inches to one foot of the ground, when later in the spring it will serd forth vigorous young growths, which will reach a height of Mglxt to ten feet witli flower spikes U*9%o three feet in length in the summer. Vina applies to Euddleia variabilis magnifiri, and B. veitchii only, and not to B. globosa (tho orange ball), for, although they have the same name and somewhat similar foliage, tho hitter's growth is quite different and requires different treatment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 19
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138PRUNING BUDDLEIAS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 19
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