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Carex elata Aurea (Bowles golden sedge); semi-evergreen grasses "can be combed at this time of year to get rid of the dead leaves": just been doing that and it's exhausting. Beth Chatto's people cut theirs into a ball shape . . . has anyone tried that method of pruning? Thanks!




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I agree the job is exhausting. I either leave mine alone so that the new colour hides the dead or chop them. Life's too short to comb garden grasses!

2 Mar, 2019

 

Thanks Arbuthnot - I have cut back the other two and just hope for plenty of new growth!

2 Mar, 2019

 

I cut back my stipa Gigantea this way and it's fine :-)

4 Mar, 2019

 

Wow that was brave Daylily! Very interesting, thanks.

4 Mar, 2019

 

It was in an RHS magazine article I had given to me I did a blog on it a while ago :-)

4 Mar, 2019

 

Thanks Daylily. I have just found your blog on it . . . amazing and hard to believe it worked! As my S. Gigantea took three years to look good, I think I'll leave it for one more year before taking such drastic action :)

5 Mar, 2019

 

:-)))))

5 Mar, 2019

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