How to Care for Repeat Bloomers

[Music Playing] David: Welcome to this edition of growingwisdom, we are here today with Pam Spry and we are going to be talking Pam about plants that extend the season by the fact that they do not have really one bloom season, right? They have multiple kinds of seasons. How about we start with this guy right here? What do we got? Pam: We got a Buddleia. This are commonly called the butterfly bush, it starts blooming usually in July. It has half this nice little flower heads. After the flower has turned brown, it is spent, you turn that off right here and you allowed these new buds to form a new flower. David: This is a great scent to. Pam: And they have a wonderful fragrance and they attract the butterflies. David: What are they like for in terms of soil and things like that? Pam: Soil is like to be very dry and very hot sunny spot. Some of them get up to six feet wide. If ever really cold winter, I could turn back in the spring enough flash right back again the next June. David: I think of Roses a bloom, once that they are done but not so with this. Pam: When the flower passes, again, you just turn that flower off and it just forces more and more blooms. If you have the plant growing a little too wide, just turn it in, keep it nice and tight. David: And how long would this bloom for right till it frost? Pam: Right till frost. David: The next plant we have got here, a hydrangea, this is sort of a pinky purple one. Again, I always think of these as blooming once but you are saying that this can bloom again. Now, what is this particular variety called? Pam: This variety here is called Endless Summer. It blooms on old and new wood so if we have a very cold winter which we do very often in New England, if the wood dies back, you will get flowers on that new growth coming from the vase. David: And our last one that we have got here is Potentilla, full of sun. Pam: Full of sun, very dry soil, sandy soil, it is in good well drain soil, it will bloom awesome a long for you. David: Now, could I put the Potentilla with butterfly bush like at the vase of it and let the butterfly bus go behind? Pam: Absolutely, that is a great compliment, they are perfect together. David: Because you have the purple and the yellow which look really nice together. Pam: Right, and the fact that they both love the same soil. David: Oh great! Pam thanks a lot. Pam: You are welcome. David: Alright, so you have learned today that there are perennials and shrubs that normally have one flowering time but multiple ones is all you have to do is cut off the dead stuff and keep re-blooming some of them right until frost. Come back often at the growingwisdom.com for all of our tips. Have a great day. [Music Playing]