Planting Butterfly Bush

Simply remove a branch or cutting from the bush by snipping it off with garden cutters. Strip away the bottom leaf leaving a scar where the leaf was as shown below the roots will sprout from here. How To Propagate Gaura Lindheimeri Butterfly Bush Gaura Gaura Plant Butterfly Plants This is an educational video teaching viewers how to propagate a butterfly bush from softwood cuttings. How to root a cutting from a butterfly bush . Pick a plant that is of the flower colorvariety you desire seeing as the propagation you are about to do is essentially a clone of that plant. It typically takes about six weeks for a butterfly bush cutting to form roots. Then cut the stem above the next leaf. This should deprive the plant of sunlight and kill the roots. It demonstrates the basic method of propagating from. Propagating Butterfly Bush Cuttings In fact one of the easiest ways to propagate this plant is from butterfly bush cuttingsSimply take branch tip cuttings in spring or summer.