How to Cut Back the Butterfly Bush (Buddleja)

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • The plants mentioned in today’s video:
    Hypericum inodorum
    Cherry Tree
    Buddleja x weyeriana 'Sungold'
    Nothofagus antarctica
    Buddleja globosa
    Buddleja davidii
    Flowering Crabapple Tree
    Japanese Maple
    Buddleja davidii 'White Profusion'
    Cotinus
    Viburnum
    Crinodendron hookerianum
    Salix alba 'Sericea'
    Aconitum
    Creeping Buttercup
    Nettle
    Buddleja davidii 'Black Knight'
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Комментарии • 102

  • @patriciast.claire7138
    @patriciast.claire7138 4 года назад +40

    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
      @JoJo-jt7ue 3 года назад

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

  • @mistyqqq
    @mistyqqq 4 года назад +7

    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.

  • @laurah9621
    @laurah9621 4 года назад +19

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

  • @johnbradshaw5891
    @johnbradshaw5891 3 года назад +4

    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.

  • @justmejo9008
    @justmejo9008 4 года назад +5

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

  • @fk3972
    @fk3972 4 года назад +7

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

  • @elizabethmusso5946
    @elizabethmusso5946 4 года назад +5

    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 🌞

  • @patrickdempsey9886
    @patrickdempsey9886 4 года назад +9

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

  • @carolinesingh9776
    @carolinesingh9776 4 года назад +5

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

  • @charliecan9603
    @charliecan9603 4 года назад +1

    Love your honest whimsical and down to earth approaches to gardening

  • @ktc333
    @ktc333 4 года назад +7

    Great personality - great to find your channel!

  • @dingomanz7
    @dingomanz7 4 года назад +12

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

  • @AJsGreenThumbLLC
    @AJsGreenThumbLLC 4 года назад +3

    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
      @pansepot1490 4 года назад +3

      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.

  • @katescanlon4017
    @katescanlon4017 4 года назад +1

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

  • @juliesaunders1220
    @juliesaunders1220 4 года назад +2

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

  • @GranRey-0
    @GranRey-0 4 года назад +4

    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)

  • @GardenDoodles
    @GardenDoodles 4 года назад +1

    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
      @nancybennett9265 4 года назад +1

      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.

  • @varrock4517
    @varrock4517 4 года назад +1

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

  • @mr.tidygarden
    @mr.tidygarden 4 года назад +1

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

  • @lulubell711
    @lulubell711 4 года назад +3

    Great job as usual

  • @peacelily720
    @peacelily720 3 года назад

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

  • @littlelulu4107
    @littlelulu4107 4 года назад +3

    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

  • @carolrose4784
    @carolrose4784 4 года назад

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

  • @shewearswoolsocks2883
    @shewearswoolsocks2883 3 года назад

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

  • @anitaptabone9801
    @anitaptabone9801 3 года назад

    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.🙂

  • @minisla
    @minisla Год назад

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

  • @gailh4466
    @gailh4466 3 года назад

    Lots of great advice

  • @stevesamoffgridsmallholdin5378
    @stevesamoffgridsmallholdin5378 3 года назад

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge

  • @andrewhill4986
    @andrewhill4986 Год назад

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

  • @redlantern3371
    @redlantern3371 4 года назад +5

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

  • @tanyacumberlin5024
    @tanyacumberlin5024 4 года назад +3

    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

  • @TheGeorgiaMediaGroup
    @TheGeorgiaMediaGroup 2 года назад

    Love this guy. He the best

  • @Boru06
    @Boru06 4 года назад +2

    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.

  • @warrenrenner2893
    @warrenrenner2893 8 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @Heatherhigleydrums
    @Heatherhigleydrums 5 месяцев назад

    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😅

  • @Toni-islandlife
    @Toni-islandlife 3 года назад

    Saved me a lot of faffing about. Thank you

  • @julesdavis1845
    @julesdavis1845 2 года назад

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

  • @ransomcoates546
    @ransomcoates546 3 года назад

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

  • @cathtf7957
    @cathtf7957 Год назад

    Yep

  • @harvindersinghuppal2162
    @harvindersinghuppal2162 4 года назад

    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

  • @folee_edge
    @folee_edge 3 года назад

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

  • @julesdavis1845
    @julesdavis1845 2 года назад

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

  • @larryconover3925
    @larryconover3925 Год назад

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

  • @et9233
    @et9233 4 года назад +3

    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
      @VancouverIslandgirl 4 года назад +4

      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
      @et9233 4 года назад +2

      @@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
      @laurenb6451 4 года назад +1

      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
      @et9233 4 года назад

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

  • @alanarnell9058
    @alanarnell9058 2 года назад

    How long would that take to grow back

  • @sidekick152
    @sidekick152 3 года назад

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

  • @davepuffett8608
    @davepuffett8608 Год назад

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

  • @joemug4079
    @joemug4079 4 года назад

    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?

  • @CCCC-tq8yo
    @CCCC-tq8yo 4 года назад +1

    Where u been

  • @simonbuckley4187
    @simonbuckley4187 4 года назад +2

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

    • @johnlordssecretgarden
      @johnlordssecretgarden  4 года назад +2

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

    • @carolynansell465
      @carolynansell465 3 года назад +2

      Like to see more detail on the edging please.

  • @olsonlr
    @olsonlr 3 года назад

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

  • @susangoddard9257
    @susangoddard9257 4 года назад

    Could we see the bushes in July?

  • @georgcorfu
    @georgcorfu 3 года назад

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

    • @paultsworld
      @paultsworld 3 года назад

      Hey Georgcorfu - I’m left handed as well!

  • @debbieperkins8824
    @debbieperkins8824 4 года назад

    Can I do this in the fall

  • @baljeet50
    @baljeet50 4 года назад

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

    • @tazmankb26
      @tazmankb26 3 года назад

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

  • @jeffreymorris9776
    @jeffreymorris9776 4 года назад

    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
      @johnlordssecretgarden  4 года назад

      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

  • @danielleclare2938
    @danielleclare2938 4 года назад +3

    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
      @GranRey-0 4 года назад

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

  • @_wormlet
    @_wormlet 3 года назад

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

    • @johnlordssecretgarden
      @johnlordssecretgarden  3 года назад +2

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

  • @cynergynt
    @cynergynt 4 года назад

    Love it....no it’s not that dead

  • @trafficface
    @trafficface 3 года назад

    Is this before John's chainsaw on a stick?

  • @at1the1beginning
    @at1the1beginning 4 года назад

    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
      @SC-qw3rw 4 года назад

      You’re not a tree

  • @bossthoughtress
    @bossthoughtress 3 года назад

    He levels me out

  • @funkdoubt1
    @funkdoubt1 2 года назад

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

  • @Veronica-je9qj
    @Veronica-je9qj 4 года назад +1

    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
      @lulubell711 4 года назад +1

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

  • @JOAQUINBCD
    @JOAQUINBCD 4 года назад +2

    Nothafagus antartica is from Argentina/Chile.

  • @janicesisson4509
    @janicesisson4509 4 года назад

    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?

  • @nancygill5003
    @nancygill5003 4 года назад +1

    Can’t hear you when you walk away from camera

  • @adriennecalhoun7351
    @adriennecalhoun7351 3 года назад

    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_afc2357
    @markc_afc2357 4 года назад

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

  • @ameisherry
    @ameisherry 4 года назад

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

    • @lulubell711
      @lulubell711 4 года назад +1

      This is the time of year to cut back trees

    • @ameisherry
      @ameisherry 4 года назад

      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
      @lulubell711 4 года назад +1

      @@ameisherry ok

    • @lewisnbeans
      @lewisnbeans 4 года назад

      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
      @ameisherry 4 года назад

      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