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Is it possible to cut this plant right back like any other buddleia? To be honest I think it's too big for my garden, but I do like it!

If you trim it back now a bit and then in the spring cut it right back it will not harm it , but will not flower that year.

  Hi caroline,

  Do tell me what colour is it ?

  Have tried to find the orange variety but with no succsess to date - I left a beautiful pink
  Buddleia [ thanks for the spelling ] that I used to cut back in  Autumn, it would spring back to life each Spring.     This helped with controlling a very large shrub that produced massive blooms and attracted the much missed butterflies.

  Hope this throws some light your way.

  floss xxx

Mmm, not sure what to do now- don't really want to lose a season's flowering. Maybe I'll just cut back the bits that are intruding too much on my other plants!I'd say it's yellow rather than orange, the type that has round "pompom" flowers.

I love the 'proper' globosa, I 'aquired' a few cuttings from a country walk a few years ago, and they are huge bushes now! I'm quite brutal with mine and hack them back regularly otherwise they soon become trees :-\ I also used to have a globosa hybrid which had the same colour flowers, but it had a small spray of the orange balls instead. It attracted butterflies and bees even more than the globosa bushes, but I tried moving it and lost it! :'(

Quote from: caroline7758 on October 12, 2008, 09:45:04
Mmm, not sure what to do now- don't really want to lose a season's flowering. Maybe I'll just cut back the bits that are intruding too much on my other plants!I'd say it's yellow rather than orange, the type that has round "pompom" flowers.

Mine is Yellow too.  I have had it for two seasons now, I cut it back in the spring this year and crossed my fingers -  and it has grown back fine and it flowered too.  :) 

Can I take cuttings from it ?