Buddleia ‘Flower Power’

This superb hybrid will attract butterflies and bees with its lovely, sweet scent and incredible spires of flowers which change colour along their length from yellow and orange to pink and purple. More compact and upright and less bushing than other Buddleja, it’s suited to pot growing as well as in the borders. Delivered as an established plant in a 2L pot.

Top Tips

Buddleias flower on new growth and will tolerate hard pruning – in early spring, when no frost is forecast, cut stems down to a around 30cm (1ft) and you’ll be rewarded with larger flowers.

Care Guide

• Plant buddleias from late spring, as soon as the soil has had a chance to warm up.
• Container-grown plants can be planted right up to early autumn.
• Buddleias perform best in a sunny position in well-drained soil, although will tolerate most conditions apart from wet, heavy clay.
• Mulch with manure in autumn or add a general purpose fertiliser in late spring to improve the number of flowers.
• Deadhead buddleia as the flowers fade to encourage a continuous supply of flower and take off every spent flower at the end of the year to prevent unwanted seedlings as plants are prolific.