Find out when to prune a butterfly bush and how to make the right cuts to enjoy more flowers on this fast-growing shrub.

Pruning your butterfly bushes is one of those necessary, but easily forgotten chores. A fear of doing it incorrectly, plus the busy nature of life, is a formula for an overgrown butterfly bush that ...

Well, Greg, today would be great. Is that specific enough for you? Butterfly bush is a shrub that blooms on new growth that it makes during the year, and so if you have a butterfly bush and it's kind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carson Downing One of the fastest-growing flowering shrubs, a butterfly bush can easily put on 5 feet or more of new growth in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person pruning a butterfly bush - Thijs de Graaf/Shutterstock Butterfly bushes (Buddleja davidii) are known as one of the best ...

Spring is the best time to prune butterfly bushes. Pruning in the late fall or winter leaves them susceptible to frost damage. Wait until the spring to do a hard prune (pruning it back to one foot ...