Buddleia

[poliphilo]

 The weeds that are growing out of the crack between the driveway and the wall turn out to be buddleia- aka butterfly bushes. I was going to pull them up but thought we'd better check first. 

We have a buddleia in the back garden that we paid for. It's coming along famously. 

We had one at the farm that Julia used to cut back to the stem every autumn- and every summer it doubled- tripled- in height and bloomed famously and drew every red admiral and peacock butterfly in Kent. 

Buddleia are hardy. Buddleia are unkillable. I love buddleia.

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[poliphilo]

I hadn't realised how prolific they are- and how unfussy about soil and location.