How To Plant Butterfly Bush. Each plant you include in your garden affect the local food web even the beautiful seemingly harmless butterfly bush. This is true for all shrubs but is even more important with butterfly bush as amending any soil and particularly clay soil can cause drainage problems.
Plant in spring or fall before frost. Finally you can use cuttings to propagate your butterfly bush. However do not over soak the soil and once the buddleia plant is fully grown water it sparingly.
Loosen the soil mix in compost and dig a hole twice the diameter of the plant container.
Dig a hole about twice the diameter of the root ball and set your plant in the garden no deeper than it was growing in its nursery pot. If you use the division method you can just dig your plant up and use a sharp tool to divide it into a number of smaller plants. When to prune buddleia. Place native soil removed from planting hole around the perimeter of the hole in a wheel barrow or on a tarp.
