mr_burninator

That is certainly a real concern Gary, but if what bmor says is true it seems they have very strong back budding and since they seem to take so well to even hard pruning i would think ramification wouldn't be a problem. Actually it sounds more like too much ramification would be a problem.

bror, i did think about the flower scale problem too. Besides just searching for a cultivar with smaller flowers, i was wondering if it was possible to treat the proportionality problem like is done with azaleas. Even though azalea flowers are obviously too large for most trees they are so abundant that they blanket the canopy and circumvent the problem similar to how foliar pads fixes the problem of leaf/needle size.

In your opinion (or anyone else's that might have some experience with buddleia), do you think it's possible to be able to pull off directing attention to the sum instead of the parts with this type of plant. If not it still might give an intersting weeping look like that of a wisteria.

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