Ich habe es gleich wieder zurückgeschnitten, aber nachdem ich es getan habe, wurde mir klar, wie leicht ein großer Teil des Stammes aus dem Boden herausragte. Scheint ziemlich verrottet zu sein. Soll ich einfach das Ganze entfernen oder bleibt es bestehen?
Danke!
Von: gruffalocow
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Isn’t that just ivy growing on a long-dead stump?
Seriously? Its a bit of rotten trunk of something with ivy growing on it. What did you actually prune?
Anyway whatever it ~~is~~ was dig it up and throw it away.
Is/was it a buddleia?
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I would leave it until June next year, if it is buddleja, it will probably survive and grow from below ground.
Buddleja is quite hard to kill.
Next year you could also look for whether it has self seeded to another part of your garden and consider keeping or moving a seedling or two, to take over from this old one.
There’s mycelium on it, you could keep it ornamentally and let the mushrooms fruit from it?
Leave the trunk to rot and house invertebrates
I cut down a buddleia at the weekend that was very much alive, but had a great big dead stump in the middle like this. I am fully expecting it will resprout next year – and that is the plan – they are hard as nails!
Not looking too good. Give it until next year (winter 24 & spring 25) to see what happens. By then you’ll have saved enough to plant a replacement elsewhere and then prep this ground for something else too. 👍🏽🌻🪴
Leave the rotten section as well, a lot of creatures need rotten wood for their lifecycles like stag beetles.
If that was a buddleja, they are very hardy so it may somehow recover, if not then they’re really easy to replace.
Especially if it was just a wild one; I have a metre tall one from ripping a seedling out from a crack in a wall 😂 they seed _EVERYWHERE_ so always need deadheading
We have one that used to be a tall and gorgeous giant butterfly and bee magnet. Then a hard winter happened after I pruned it back as usual, and it ‘died’ – rotten dry stumps and all the dead wood just falling off in bundles. There was one small green shoot remaining with a couple of leaves on it…so we left it be & quite a number of years later, it’s revived – nowhere near as tall and vigorous yet, but getting there!!