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Summer Lilac

Post by KimChick » Thu May 24, 2018 1:00 pm

If anyone has a summer lilac (buddleia / butterfly bush), has it shown new growth yet? I think mine is dead.
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by Killerbunny » Thu May 24, 2018 1:14 pm

I have never been able to keep one alive in this area for more than 3 years. Several of my plants including a rose, black Sambuca an a raspberry all came through the winter, started to bud and got hit by that late cold snap in April. They have not come back yet.
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by KimChick » Thu May 24, 2018 1:19 pm

Killerbunny wrote:
Thu May 24, 2018 1:14 pm
I have never been able to keep one alive in this area for more than 3 years. Several of my plants including a rose, black Sambuca an a raspberry all came through the winter, started to bud and got hit by that late cold snap in April. They have not come back yet.
This does not sound good. I have already lost a bleeding heart; good thing I bought two, but they weren't cheap.
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by Ontario Chick » Fri May 25, 2018 9:39 am

We seem to have had a killer winter, looks like I lost one of my Smoke trees, didn't think you could kill that and one cedar about 6 years old is yellow and crisp, didn't think there was anything unusual about this past winter, but definitely unusual number of shrubs in the neighborhood didn't make it.
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by labradors » Fri May 25, 2018 12:36 pm

Mine is alive!!! I am delighted as I have had NO luck growing them here on two previous occasions, but I just cannot give up as I love them so much. It's so frustrating knowing that they grow like weeds in England, in cracks in the pavement and everywhere.

I also bought several orange milkweeds last year. It seems that only 2 out of 6 survived, and then there was the one in the front bed which I haven't been able to locate. That will teach me to buy things on sale at Cdn Tire! I saw a fabulous orange milkweed on a garden tour last summer, and asked the owner how he got his plant to look so bushy. He apparently chopped it down to force it to bush out :).

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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by kenya » Fri May 25, 2018 1:41 pm

I bought the orange milkweed for my mom , grows like a weed at her place. Won't grow for me.
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by KimChick » Sat May 26, 2018 1:52 pm

Both of my orange milkweeds are up - asclepias tuberosa - the perennial kind. They take their time in emerging, like hosta do. I never chop mine down. I have also started, from seed, asclepias curassavica which has red flowers and is known as Bloodflower. I got the seeds from Richter's.
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by KimChick » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:44 am

THERE IS LIFE!!!! Growing from the center of the plant. Now, if we can only have the perfect spring and summer....
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by Killerbunny » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:21 am

Went and checked some of the ones I thought were gone and they are sprouting from the bottom, yay!
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Re: Summer Lilac

Post by Farrier1987 » Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:15 am

Summer lilac, and sumarnt.
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