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Deadheading is a widespread form of pruning, [1] since fading flowers are not as appealing and direct a lot of energy into seed development if pollinated. [2] The goal of deadheading is thus to preserve the attractiveness of the plants in beds, borders, containers and hanging baskets, as well as to encourage
When deadheading mums, trim off the spent flower and its stem down to the next leaf or node. Snipping off only the spent flower at the base of the bloom can leave an ugly, pointy stem sticking up.
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Buddleja lindleyana grows to < 3 m in height in the wild, its slender branches tetragonous in section, and slightly winged. The dark green leaves are opposite, ovate , 4 – 20 cm in length. The individual purple flowers are arguably among the most attractive of the genus , but occur in such small numbers intermittently along slender, terminal ...
Buddleja (/ ˈ b ʌ d l i ə /; orth. var. Buddleia; also historically given as Buddlea) is a genus comprising over 140 [3] species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an English botanist and rector , at the suggestion ...
Buddleja macrostachya grows 1–6 m in height, flowering from March to September in the wild. The branchlets are quadrangular, and winged, stellate tomentose when young. The leaves are sessile or subsessile, narrowly to very narrowly elliptic, and hugely variable in size, ranging from 4–45 cm long by 1–15 cm wide, mostly stellate tomentose, the margins crenate-serrate, and the apex acuminate.
Buddleja alternifolia, known as alternate-leaved butterfly-bush, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family, which is endemic to Gansu, China.A substantial deciduous shrub growing to 4 metres (13 ft) tall and wide, it bears grey-green leaves and graceful pendent racemes of scented lilac flowers in summer.
Buddleja tubiflora grows to < 2 m in height, with the typically lax habit creating a spread of < 3 m. The shrub is chiefly distinguished by its striking orange flowers, the corollas 25 mm long by 6 mm wide at the throat, borne in axillary clusters towards the ends of the branches.