Can I revive my butterfly bushes?
Question:I have five beautiful butterfly bushes that usually grow quite big in the summer. I trimmed them back in late January and they started to grow in early March. We had a very cold snap and the new growth died. I kept watering them and they started to come back in April. In the beginning of June I left town for a week and we didn't have any rain and it was very hot, so now what was growing is wilting and the plants look almost dead. I have watered them every evening but they aren't looking good. Is there something else I can do to help bring them back from the brink of death?
Answers:
Don't over water, for starters.
Trim back the wilted growth as far back as you can handle. Fertilize with something fairly high in nitrogen (30-10-10). Once you get some new growth, switch to a high phosphorus fertilizer (20-50-10 or something with a HIGH MIDDLE number). That should help.
You can't kill a butterfly bush with a nuclear weapon. Just keep watering it, it will come back.
i had the same problem my had new growth and then just died maybe try cutting it back and waiting till next summer to start all over again maybe that will save them
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