With its honey-scented blooms and unusual weeping habit, this buddleia is a sight to behold when in bloom. Its large, pendant flowers hang like wisteria, making a truly amazing statement plant for your garden. Great in a mixed border or as a specimen plant, ‘Wisteria Lane is compact enough to be grown in a pot, where you’ll be won over by its fragrant, hanging blooms. Really easy to grow this is a buddleia that anyone can grow whatever their level of experience, with or without a garden and like all buddleias, Wisteria Lane is a magnet for butterflies and other pollinating insects who will flock to your garden to dine on the sumptuous lilac flowers. Specifications Supplied as an established plant in a 12cm pot Ready for immediate potting on or planting out Plants will reach H150cm x W150cm Availability: August to November Planting time: February to October Flowering time: July to September Top Tips Deadhead buddleia as the flowers fade to encourage new shoots and flower buds. Take off any spent blooms at the end of the year to prevent unwanted seedlings. Care Information Planting Advice for Wisteria Lane Buddleia: Plant buddleias from late spring, as the soil warms. 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. Before planting soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain. Dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the shrub you’re planting and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill one the shrub is in place. Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots. Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker. Place your shrub in the hole at the same level at the pot then refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling). Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball and water well. Mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc Care Advice for your buddleia: Mulch with manure in autumn or add a general-purpose fertiliser in late spring to improve the number of flowers, however, avoid a summer feed as too much fertility promotes leaf growth over flower production. Water freely when in growth and sparingly otherwise. Each spring apply a thin layer of mulch to retain moisture and control weeds. Pruning Advice for Buddleia ‘Wisteria Lane’ Deadhead buddleia as the flowers fade to encourage new shoots and flower buds. Take off any spent blooms at the end of the year to prevent unwanted seedlings. Buddleias will tolerate severe pruning although this should be avoided until late spring. When no frost is forecast, cut stems down to around 30cm (1ft) to encourage larger flowers. If you want a taller plant, for example at the back of a border, stems can be left to 60cm (2ft).
