In Praise of Buddleia

Its time to prune our Buddleias.   By pruning them back hard the next years growth will be long and straight - just right for use as garden canes.   The flowers on Buddleias are loved by butterflies and my bees.  As well as sticks for the garden the chippings go into the hen run to be processed (eventually) into garden mulch - isn't nature wonderful!

Buddleia garden sticks

Now is a good time to prune buddleia bushes and as a bonus the prunings make great garden canes for next year.

On another topic;  We have had a very nice feature about EcoDIY in the Essex Gazette see http://www.ecodiy.org/gazette%20article.pdf  (its a Pdf download)