By Sheilabub
Hertfordshire,
United Kingdom 
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!
2 Mar, 2019
Answers
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
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