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Sep 13, 2014 2:26 PM CST
Name: Sheridragonfly/Sheri
Alabama (Zone 8b)
Salvias Celebrating Gardening: 2015
we are expecting some partial cloudy days and some light rain this weekend..thank good ness as it was 104 heat index today and several days this week and humid..

I have at least 2 months of growing time left here
can I dig up my butterfly bush and relocate it about 10 foot away in the flower bed this weekend?

do I prune it one third so it does not go into more shock or not be sealed in the branches for frost in
mid or late november? I figured that one should not hard prune any butterfly bush in the fall..
Better to do that March lst here..as I do..

Also which of the smaller growing butterfly bushes are the best butterfly attractors that you have grown
we are zone 8..

This attraction never got over 5 foot and it is beautiful and drew so many swallowtails this year
the blooms were purplish red in my soil.
Sheri/sheridragonfly


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