Yes, I was referring to the pruning. Last year I cut one of the Buddleia back and it did not take it well. Looks a mess this year. Some branches never recovered. It was one of the gold colored ones. I don't prune them very aggressively. They are growing in shade, so they don't get hugh. Neal, I'm afraid that for us in the Mid Atlantic, this is such a tough year to diagnose any problems as the weather has been so drastically different than normal.
I had read that Buddleia would continue to bloom if you dead head it. Last year I dead headed The "White Profusions". This year they hardly bloomed at all. Normally I would prune them in spring, but hardly any of them got any decent growth at all this summer.
Smoke Bush grew a lot and needs a severe cut back, both of them. I'm not sure of whether to do it now or in the spring.
