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Buddleia davidii bushes may be pruned this month. Strictly speaking, buddleia does not need to be pruned — witness the hundreds of thousands of garden escapees growing untended on urban wasteland. However, bushes which have outgrown their space or produced a poor show of flowers will benefit, producing strong new stems and, more importantly, large clusters of flowers for the butterflies.

Cut back all last year’s shoots to within 5 or 8cm (2 or 3in) of the old wood as shown.

In mild winters, new rosettes of leaves may already have started to form at the junction of the old and new wood and these should be left undamaged.