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Should you cut back the flower stems from last year?


On plant Phormium tenax

  • Question asked on 7 Apr, 2010

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As a general rule yes. This keeps the plant tidy and is also an opportunity to cut back old and dying leaves too. Newer growth is in the middle of the fan like growth and always pushes the older leaves out and away.

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