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

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.

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.

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.

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 :).

Linda

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

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.

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

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

Summer lilac, and sumarnt.