Butterfly Bush – Pruning After Hard Freeze
Q: I’m sure I’ve heard you advise to prune a butterfly bush after a hard freeze. Did you say to cut it back to about twelve or eighteen inches?
A: Many gardeners have found that a small butterfly bush quickly becomes huge. They shade and smother just about anything nearby. The good news is that the shrub looks better and flowers more profusely if pruned severely (down to 12 – 18 inches) each winter. Prune yours any time between now and late February.
-
Advertisement
-
Follow Walter
-
Advertisement
-
-
April calendar
Time to start moving your houseplants outdoors gradually. April winds will keep your wind chimes tinkling....
Get The Checklist
-
-
-
name that plant
Post your puzzlers and help others with theirs.
Start Here
-
-
Trending Posts
-
1
Wolf’s Milk Slime Mold – Identification
-
2
Tree Limb – Orange Fungus
-
3
Peach – Seedling with Broken Top
-
4
Vines – Replacing Wisteria
-
5
Magnolia scale on banana shrub – control
-
1
Roundup(glyphosate) damage – On Rose
-
2
Mockernut Hickory – Identification
-
3
Magnolia scale on banana shrub – control
-
4
Bean – Anthracnose
-
5
White Grub – Control in Lawns
-
-
Walter’s Bookshelf
Browse and purchase gardening books by Walter Reeves, plus select titles by other authors.
View books -
Popular topics
Soil Spring Summer Seed Winter Fall Flowers Weed Fertilizer Disease Shade Temperature Pots Oak Pine Pruning Mulch Watering Container Maple Compost Birds Herbicide Tomatoes Azalea Moisture Poison Pears Hydrangea Glyphosate Caterpillar Pests Cherry Roundup Irrigation Pre-Emergent Pesticide Stone Dogwood Peach Spider Pine Straw Magnolia Greenhouse Squash Squirrels Lemon Travel Beans Poisonous