Cutting faded flowers off plants to beget more blooms or bushier growing is call deadheading . Most blooming perennial and one-year plants benefit from this exercise because it prevents the plant from using its Energy Department to create seed . Deadheading not only extends the bloom full stop , but the life of the plant can be extended because some plants give out after they bring forth seed . The Butterfly Bush , or Buddleia , is a flowering repeated shrub that is renowned for its power to attract large turn of butterflies to its colorful flower spikes . Proper deadheading keeps the plant in upright shape and help the plant produce several rhythm of blooms throughout the growing time of year .

Step 1

trim back off single blooms after the rosiness fades and turn over browned but before the come are formed . The stem on which the heyday were blooming should be foreshorten back by one - third of its length . Cut back at a percentage point one - quarter inch above a leaf node or an arena where a set of leaves are growing from the root . It is hunky-dory to cut down the stem back further if needed than one - third to shape the plant . The plant will generate young maturation and blooms from the pruned area .

Step 2

Cut back the entire works after a bloom period of time if you were not able to cut each individual bloom as it faded . In this fount , use garden pruner , if needed , because they cut larger branch easily and flawlessly . If it is still during the growing time of year , or at least six weeks before freezing weather arrives , thin out back the entire works by one - third to one - one-half to engender a new round of blooms . Cut the gravid limbs back to a main limb or to the footing and cut off the lowly limbs by cutting one - quarter inch above a leaf node at the desired height .

Step 3

Cut the plant to the ground after frost . In areas where the weather does not freeze , thin the Butterfly Bush to the ground in late fall anyway . This return new growth and more salad days when the foliage returns in the spring or during the next growing season .

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