How to Cut Back the Butterfly Bush (Buddleja)

[@patriciast.claire7138]

Found this mans channel about 2 months ago, and I just love his personality. He has sooo much gardening know how to share. I have been gardening for about 30 yrs., and he has taught me alot of things I never knew. His videos are informative, with a touch of humor. Great content!

[@JoJo-jt7ue]

Enjoying your knowledge...helps me with my work....I prefer the zubat triple japanese style saw blades..try them..its like cutting thru butter.

[@laurah9621]

Just found this channel, become slightly obsessed with it. Thanks John for the great advise, loving it.

[@mistyqqq]

I love the way he tells us what we need to know but doesn’t procrastinate, he just gets right on with it. Also appreciate him naming the plants trees and shrubs. Thank you John.

[@johnbradshaw5891]

John, you are an absolute star and should be on the mainstream media. The Father Ted "keep tapping away" comment cheered me up so much as we enter another lockdown here in the UK (mid October). Showed my wife who is also a huge Father Ted fan and we were both laughing with tears running down our faces. Keep up the great work and humour.

[@patrickdempsey9886]

Welcome back John it was a long winter with out you great simple practical advice isn't spring great God bless your work

[@charliecan9603]

Love your honest whimsical and down to earth approaches to gardening

[@fk3972]

“Christopher can’t be right about everything” 😆 Love your channel @John Lord’s Secret Garden.

[@justmejo9008]

This lovely man has changed gardening for all of us. We're not in Instagram anymore🤗 love and thanks Sir

[@elizabethmusso5946]

Okay, I love the hack about the "muck" as I was wondering if he'd use a seal on that cut. Learning lots! Thank you from Central California 🌞

[@ktc333]

Great personality - great to find your channel!

[@carolinesingh9776]

I found your channel today. I love this guy! "...that chap from Star Wars" 😄

[@dingomanz7]

John: 'David shut off that camera' **5 minutes later, 2 stroke gas still in the air** John: 'Okay, where were we...'

[@truthofthematter9409]

lolz You think? 😆

[@carolrose4784]

It’s wonderful to have found you. I love your attitude and look forward to watching more videos. You are great!

[@katescanlon4017]

Moved some small shrubs yesterday as you recently showed how many thanks for your advice

[@GranRey-0]

Excellent, you've always got some useful info for us! My mom just planted a Buddleja last year, so I'll be able to tell her that she can basically prune it anyway she wants. haha 16:23 And after saying you don't want to use a chainsaw on camera because it might instill bad habits- *picks up hedge-trimmer* I get the feeling that this is all rushed, but then I look at the timestamp and it's 21:55 long...man that went quick! Thanks for the video John! (and David)

[@shewearswoolsocks2883]

Thoroughly enjoyed this, love the wit and energy and great information! so glad I found this channel!

[@GardenDoodles]

Planted a couple of Pugster Amethyst buddleias last year. They were so fragrant and the bees loved them. Thinking of adding some more to our garden this year.

[@nancybennett9265]

I bought a Pugster Amethyst last year and it did so well I bought 2 more later in the Summer. They are excellent little plants and so easy to keep dead headed.

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Holy crap, I put in 6 buddleja davidii last season. I'll make sure I stay on top of them to restrict their rampant growth habit. Thanks for the tips John...we missed ya for a good minute.

[@pansepot1490]

Buddlejas flower on new wood. The standard gardening advice is to cut them back hard each year. Unless of course one wants to develop a big specimen. There are also modern varieties that have a compact habit. In certain areas of the US they are considered invasive.

[@juliesaunders1220]

I use my lithium battery operated Milwaukie Hackzall reciprocating tool with a pruning blade for cutting branches. It works like a champ.

[@peacelily720]

I really like the way how you keep natural looking instead uniforms.

[@littlelulu4107]

The one I have takes quite a while to show new spring growth and DN bloom til August. The neighbour cat sits underneath it when it's in bloom so it can murder the butterflies so I'm thinking of getting rid of it completely although I do love it

[@varrock4517]

noticed the plant tags you've added into video for visualization.. I like that, thankyou.

[@mr.tidygarden]

John you are a great character fantastic camera presence. I am a new KZbin gardener from Cork City.

[@Heatherhigleydrums]

If you don't see obvious buds on those old thick branches of davidii will it always produce stems at the side of the top of your cut regardless more or less? I just did some severe pruning and I could only see clear buds on higher newer stems below where it had leaves already ( it didn't really lose its leaves this year). I'm in Essex. I must have cut 6ft off it and it looks a very bare view now! A bunch of thick old chopped branches about 30/40cm high with not much sign of life around the cut lines😅

[@julesdavis1845]

Thank you, Mr. Lord. Is your gravel sharp?

[@minisla]

Takes the overthinking out of gardening. Cut it half or full simple 😊

[@tanyacumberlin5024]

Can you help me please, my beautiful Rowan Tree looks as though it has some sort of fungus growning on it's branches and they are becoming very brittle and some are just snapping off!!! Last year we had taram and gravel laid to try to make something of the garden that before that was just a mud slide, it was terrible but could this be harming my beautiful tree. Please can you give me your thoughts on this, I'm so worried about the Tree...... Blessed Be. Tanya

[@lulubell711]

Great job as usual

[@julesdavis1845]

How do you feed the tree at the center of the cicircle?

[@larryconover3925]

how do you hold down the edging posts so they don't move???

[@andrewhill4986]

I keep waiting to hear “Oi! What are you doin on my land!?!

[@alanarnell9058]

How long would that take to grow back

[@redlantern3371]

So satisfying to see you throw some Sh*t around!

[@anitaptabone9801]

Thanks for the reply I took out my standard rose and I watched this video was very good for me I understand how to cut back the buddleias . Lol hope it works, I'll let you know in a year.🙂

[@davepuffett8608]

When is the best time of the year to cut my Buddleja like you have John?

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

Spring is best.

[@debbieperkins8824]

Can I do this in the fall

[@TheGeorgiaMediaGroup]

Love this guy. He the best

[@susangoddard9257]

Could we see the bushes in July?

[@simonbuckley4187]

Question. How do you do you keep the edging together as in screw each pace together? Thanks.

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

With one long narrow screw between each pole, the new cordless screwdrivers are so useful.

[@carolynansell465]

Like to see more detail on the edging please.

[@CCCC-tq8yo]

Where u been

[@stevesamoffgridsmallholdin5378]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@gailh4466]

Lots of great advice

[@baljeet50]

great video! can we cut buddleja at any time of the year John?

[@tazmankb26]

I cut mine in late Jan , early Feb before it warms up for the spring in March.

[@Boru06]

My dad showed me that trick with the muck on the fresh cut. Though he did it when he knocked a tree for fire wood in his boss's 500acre farm.

[@et9233]

Does anyone have hydrangea paniculata? I'm not sure if mine died over winter or still dormant! Has anyone else got new growth yet? My hydrangea mopheads have 2 feet of new green growth already!

[@VancouverIslandgirl]

E T Be patient tiny bumps will come along the stems and it will take off I have a garden full of the piniculata’s have never lost one yet they are pretty hard to kill. Just be patient.

[@et9233]

@@VancouverIslandgirl Thank you Diane for your kind advice. I'm new & inexperienced with Hydrangeas. Ive always had rose gardens in the past but switched to a hydrangea garden. I'll be more patient with them :) thanks

[@laurenb6451]

If you are really nervous you can scratch the bark, looking for green but then you need to use self control and not do that again. It’ll be OK I think, just wait.

[@et9233]

@@laurenb6451 Thanks Lauren, indeed its green underneath and little new buds are beginning to sprout so thankfully its stirring into life :)

[@_wormlet]

How do you link the wood posts together to make that curved edging

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

With wood screws (70mm) put in at an angle. Very easy to do, if a mistake is made, just unscrew and start again.

[@sidekick152]

When I see a video thumbnail of John Lord with a saw, you know I’m watching. “What is John Lord up to now?” 😂

[@warrenrenner2893]

I know there are 2 trains of thought.Trim in the end of the Fall or trim in the spring.I prefer the spring because the birds will eat the seeds over the winter.I am also lazy.

[@ransomcoates546]

I had to laugh watching the discussion of buddleias. Here in Indiana we have to treat them as showy annuals!

[@jeffreymorris9776]

I've been told not to prune cherry tree until late spring/early summer because of silver leaf. Have you had experience with silver leaf at all there? I've heard definitely don't prune when it's rainy or rain in the forecast...

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

Yes you're supposed only to prune cherries in summer to cut the risk of silver leaf, but the odd branch cut back in winter is probably no harm

[@folee_edge]

Ah, Ireland - your people are as beautiful as your glorious isle.

[@joemug4079]

Because I’m trying to fill my garden, and to sell a plant here and there, I air root limbs I know it’s time to cut back, as you’re doing. If you would, make a video on propagating plants, and what you do at your garden. So....I would have gotten 4 big plants from the limbs you cut. It also helps when you’re budgeting. Your thoughts on propagation techniques?

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

Will do something on plant propagation soon.

[@Toni-islandlife]

Saved me a lot of faffing about. Thank you

[@harvindersinghuppal2162]

Recently bought a couple of Globosa's (both were sadly badly pot bound but only £6 a pop)... i had the idea that they (or at least one) might look good near a lovely white birch (jaq dorenbos). But as i'm typing this out i think the rather goofy idea might indeed be a stupid one ... i think it might be 'the beauty and the tramp' combo. Anyway's not sure if that holiday you mentioned you had coming up ever materialised. Keep well mate

[@cathtf7957]

Yep

[@at1the1beginning]

Why would you rub soil onto a fresh cut? You wouldn't do the same to yourself if you had a wound, right? Right

[@SC-qw3rw]

You’re not a tree

[@trafficface]

Is this before John's chainsaw on a stick?

[@olsonlr]

Buy yourself a battery powered sawsall/reciprocating saw. Great for pruning. Sell special blades for that.

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

Will definitely look into that.

[@georgcorfu]

Hi John, I can see you are left handed just lime me but I do write with my right hand.

[@paultsworld]

Hey Georgcorfu - I’m left handed as well!

[@danielleclare2938]

After the camera stops he chops it to the ground.... I am the same way gotta stop but can't.... great vid thanks John!!

[@GranRey-0]

Haha! I'm the opposite, I'm always worried I'll kill it if I cut too much off.

[@funkdoubt1]

Erm .. Luke Sky walker, Darth Vader, maybe ? Lol 👨🏽‍🎨🧑🏽‍🌾

[@cynergynt]

Love it....no it’s not that dead

[@Veronica-je9qj]

Hahaha. You are "a bit long in the tooth". You said in the beginning of the video to "pause the film". Nobody records on film these days. We are a all digital world! Have a great vacation and be wary of coughing strangers, please. Thanks for the vides, too.

[@lulubell711]

So what.... let him say what he wants to say

[@bossthoughtress]

He levels me out

[@janicesisson4509]

Just a thought....but maybe along with the botanical name of plants put the more commonly used name. A picture would be helpful also. Did you go away on vacation in light of the corona Virus?

[@JOAQUINBCD]

Nothafagus antartica is from Argentina/Chile.

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

I always mix that one up

[@JOAQUINBCD]

@@johnlordssecretgarden 😄😄🤣

[@nancygill5003]

Can’t hear you when you walk away from camera

[@adriennecalhoun7351]

David pls don't move around so much. Get close ups of the plants. Not the narrator's body. Pls show close ups of leaves and flowers.

[@markc_afc14]

I bt you didn't end up going on holiday with CORONAVIRUS ABSOLUTELY MESSING EVERYONE'S YEAR

[@ameisherry]

Why you keep cutting the trees ? If you have so much energy can simply go to the gym why keep cutting the trees ?

[@lulubell711]

This is the time of year to cut back trees

[@ameisherry]

SANDY BELLOMY why tree needs to cut back ? You guys not even use the cut as mulch so why keep disturbing how nature suppose to be ? It’s not like fruit tree 🌳 that need to be cut in order to have more productions , neither using those trees 🌲 cutting as supporting tree to mulch the new plants I still believe there’s better things to do than disturb Mother Nature 🌬

[@lulubell711]

@@ameisherry ok

[@lewisnbeans]

You have to cut back or the strong plants and tree take over and that all you are left with. Mother nature will thank you in time.

[@ameisherry]

lewisnbeans Mother Nature 🌬 need time to heal It’s like the barber 💈 not ask for your permission just cut and shave all your hair I don’t think anyone will be happy for that