Buddleia plant has stopped flowering
Hi,
I'm very new to gardening but love it and really want to learn where I go wrong. I bought a buddleia plant about 5 weeks ago. It was from homebase and in a smallish pot about 2/3L I think. It had quite a few flowers already on it and in the weeks after planting it seemed to do well, feeding it miracle grow every couple of weeks and watering it daily.
My problem is the last week I noticed the flower heads were dying so I pruned then as I understand that's what you're supposed to do. This morning all my flower heads are dead and I'd say the stems look I silver colour with some damage to the leaves. I've searched but can't find any advice on this so thought I'd ask on here if anyone knows of relaly appreciate opinions and advice. I have added a couple of pictures of the plant after I have printed all the dead flower heads off.
Thanks in advance
I'm very new to gardening but love it and really want to learn where I go wrong. I bought a buddleia plant about 5 weeks ago. It was from homebase and in a smallish pot about 2/3L I think. It had quite a few flowers already on it and in the weeks after planting it seemed to do well, feeding it miracle grow every couple of weeks and watering it daily.
My problem is the last week I noticed the flower heads were dying so I pruned then as I understand that's what you're supposed to do. This morning all my flower heads are dead and I'd say the stems look I silver colour with some damage to the leaves. I've searched but can't find any advice on this so thought I'd ask on here if anyone knows of relaly appreciate opinions and advice. I have added a couple of pictures of the plant after I have printed all the dead flower heads off.
Thanks in advance
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
It is possible that you are being too kind to it. I can't ever remember feeding mine! When you consider where they can grow - at the top of a derelict building, on roadside verges, they manage without soil. It might be easier to advise if you can post some pictures.
One other possibility is you're making it too comfortable, with the watering and feeding. A lot of plants don't produce flowers if they are feeling fat - especially young plants. Flowers take quite a lot of resources for a plant, so if they don't expect imminent death, they don't expend the energy on the next generation (i.e. flowers and then seeds), they just grow roots and leaves to make a stronger plant.
Buddleia grow out of walls and roof gutters. Watering it to help it along when it's newly planted is good, but I'd not be doing it more than once a week unless it's being absolutely baked and there's very little soil where you've planted it. And feeding it is probably not necessary more than maybe every 6 weeks, unless it's planted in a rubble heap.