| One example is buddleia, or butterfly bush, a shrubby perennial that benefits from hard pruning. |
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| Columbine and nicotiana sprouted everywhere, as did a colony of small buddleia. |
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| The fountain buddleia has long, arching branches that, when blooming, resemble a lavender fountain. |
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| However, in hedgerows, aliens like fuchsia, buddleia and snowberry are pushing out native species like spindle and guelder rose. |
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| This is cheap and easy to do with specimens such as berberis, buddleia, cornus, kerria, philadelphus, spirea and willow. |
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| The buddleia is just coming into flower and mid-summer clematis are covered in fat buds that will soon bloom. |
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| Maybe Dan was impressed by my magnificent pruning of the roses and the buddleia last yer. |
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| They planted a spring flowering cherry tree, two buddleia bushes and a laurel bush, along with daffodil bulbs. |
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| To the right is a wilderness, abandoned to brambles, ground elder, bindweed and buddleia. |
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| These and plants such as lavatera, buddleia and cistus are generally not worth moving unless they have been in the ground for two or three years. |
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| She was lying in the dust beneath a white buddleia, staring straight ahead, sniffing at red admirals and painted ladies as they fluttered past. |
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| If the buddleia is too thick, you can cut off a part of the plant and put it on a compost heap. |
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| Yesterday we plugged the gap in the hedge with two new buddleia plants. |
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| And finally, even experts with big gardens think carefully about where to put a buddleia. |
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| This week I've been in southern Normandy, staying in a farmhouse whose garden contains buddleia bushes, those infallible butterfly-bringers. |
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| To be honest, a buddleia bush covered in tortoiseshells and peacocks still makes me go all dewy-eyed. |
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| Combined with vitamin and mineral-rich chestnut and camelina and safflower oils, the Alpine buddleia works as a powerful anti-free radical. |
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| Rich in repairing, anti-free radical substances called iridoïds, the buddleia has been used for the first time in cosmetics by Clarins. |
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| Instead of throwing the buddleia, rose or other prunings away use them as hardwood cuttings and plant in a trench in a sheltered part of the garden. |
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| Summary: Results published by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research discuss how the buddleia is posing a number of threats to local environments in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and other areas of Europe. |
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| Peter Houghton, emeritus professor of pharmacognosy at King's College London, has studied buddleia for 30 years, and has spent many an afternoon on a railway siding digging up its peppery-smelling roots. |
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| Take hardwood cuttings from shrubs including buddleia, forsythia, spirea, weigela, berberis, hydrangea, pyracantha and roses. |
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| Between here and there, the bushtits are diligent from buddleia to the fennel, cleaning up the boughs. |
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| Often referred to as the butterfly bush, buddleia is one of the friendliest shrubs for attracting wildlife to your garden. |
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| Take hardwood cuttings from shrubs including buddleia, forsythia, spiraea, weigela, berberis, hydrangea, pyracantha and roses. |
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| Try berberis, buddleia, cotoneaster, elderberry, escallonia, forsythia, jasmine, philadelphus, weigelia, privet and box. |
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| The butterflies that prefer ornamental plants are not more present in cities than in rural areas. For example, the Silver-washed Fritillary is not found in cities, but is attracted by introduced plants such as the buddleia. |
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| Next to concrete slabs which serve as seats, you can plant ground covering herbs like lavander, thyme, rosemary or mint then, following the shape of the garden, larger plants of different colours such as buddleia. |
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| At the foot of the garden, behind a clump of gooseberry-bushes, stood an arbour formed of a yellow buddleia. |
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| Everybody knows butterflies adore buddleia, but the caterpillars of the red admiral love nettles. |
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| The spectacle of Red Admirals and Small Tortoiseshells flitting around buddleia bushes is one of the classic sights of British summertime. |
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| Create a butterfly garden French marigold, sweet smelling lavender, buddleia and red valerian are favourites of butterflies. |
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| He is a celebrated plant-breeder – you can see examples of his creations on his website, bredbypetermoore.co.uk – and he has bred nine buddleia cultivars and hybrids, with more in the pipeline. |
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| It seemed a shame to disturb it as I walked down the garden, but it quickly fluttered off to join others feeding on buddleia, alongside small tortoiseshells and commas. |
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| Good candidates for this are roses, cornus, jasmine, deutzia, buddleia, forsythia and honeysuckle, plus fruit such as fig, blackberry and gooseberry. |
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| These pretty plants from South Africa, members of the Scrophularia or figwort family together with verbascum and buddleia, flower prolifically all summer. |
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| Buddleja Blue Chip is the first in a new generation of the ever popular buddleia butterfly bush, that is truly a dwarf, perpetually flowering and genuinely patio sized plant. |
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| Woody stemmed plants, like Buddleia and plants that ooze sap, like Asclepias, should be cut and placed in hot water. |
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| Buddleia and calendula attract hoverflies and lacewings into the garden and hanging bird feeders among the fruit trees will encourage birds to eat over-wintering pests. |
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| Buddleia has long been seen as the key species to attract colourful red admirals, peacocks and small tortoiseshells. |
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