howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
much mention has been made of this ubiquitous plant on here, spotted this specimen earlier in the high st.
any advances on this?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#2
snargate street howard,the old hovertell site.and jewsons area of coombe valley road.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
york st is making an effort too brian.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#4
yes howard,it dose get every where.not a fan of it myself,but do class it as a weed though.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#5
We have a Buddleja in our garden,how we got it nobody knows.
As a small shrub it is quite attractive but as it grows it becomes hideous but the number of Butterflies it attracts
is amazing.
As you approach it,it explodes with hundreds of Butterflies some as big as a wren.
It will be removed at the end of summer but planted in an appropriate place next year.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#6
The best way to treat Buddleia is to prune it well back each year, I have a lovely deep purple one in the garden that we have treated like that every year and I used to have a pink one up in Suffolk as well as the usual lilac coloured one.
Butterflies seem to prefer the lilac coloured, while bees seem not to be fussy which one they go on.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#7
Thanks Jan we will prune and transplant.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#8
Yes, they do well if you can find time to cut right back in the autumn, but it is hard work. The new branches will have bigger flowers.
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#9
Any buddleia fans should have a look at the old MFI site, I'd guess they're 6 foot high.
Somebody mentioned that DDC were developing that site with hotels, cinemas, shops and restaurants...............
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#10
is that right david,i thought it was a new tourist attration,called walking a bomb site.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#11
Leave the area a little longer and it might become an area of scientific interest
................ or teeming with the kind of wildlife that we could do without like rats.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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competition is now hotting up in the dover's best buddleia competition, this example between asda and the charlton centre has much to commend it.
