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Posted by peter on Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:29 pm ADTI getting the butterfly bush ready for winter. It's a couple of yr's old and never been puned. How far to the ground do I cut it?
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Posted by Patricia on Friday, October 12, 2007 10:13 pm ADTI have 3 butterfly bushes and I prune them 7-8" off the ground in the spring. I never prune in the fall because someone I knew did and it died. Good-luck
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Posted by Nicole on Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:22 pm ADTWe grow Buddleias for the Monarchs and other butterflies. There are 4 mature BBs on the property, and this year we added another 20+ which were grown from seed. As Patricia states, your BB should only be pruned in the spring. Mine are pruned to a foot from the ground. Pruning them in the fall will kill them - a mistake I made a couple of years ago.
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Posted by Niecey on Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:38 pm ASTMaybe we had a mild winter that year but pruned my BB one year in the fall and it came back alive and kicking. Every spring I prune my butterfly bush almost to the ground and always grow over 7 feet by the fall.
