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Although butterfly bushes tolerate severe pruning to maintain a smaller size you can reduce the time you ll spend pruning by planting it in a location with plenty of room for the plant to develop its natural size and shape. In warmer climates butterfly bushes soon grow into trees and develop rugged trunks that peel.

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If it s late in the spring and you discover dead growth on your butterfly bush prune it away. How to grow one that you and the butterflies will love. To encourage new shoots and flower buds. Too much fertility promotes leaf growth over flower production.

Blooms from summer to autumn. Butterfly bushes grow from 6 to 12 feet tall with a spread of 4 to 15 feet. Remove spent flower spikes to encourage new shoots and flower buds. A bad frost after this kind of pruning can kill back all that healthy living wood you ve just exposed.

Avoid fertilizing butterfly bush. Butterfly bush are quite easy to grow but you do need to know a bit about their preferences and requirements to achieve maximum success. Butterfly bush need full sun. Use larger types in the back of a layered planting more compact types in the middle.

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