Leave 'em alone - they'll die back to the ground over winter and you can remove the dead growth when that happens, either during winter or in spring.

mine always put new leaves out now. in a mild winter they give the plant an early start in the spring. if harsh thse leaves die and new ones grow in spring. just leave them to it.

thanks very much for that,i usually do but the growth this year is so abundant it kind of threw me but i will leave them alone,cheers

This has a lot of inetrest for me as I cut mine back yesterday..lol..OOPPPSS, will they come back next year?

Should do Kate40 - on the subject of cutting stuff down, after 30 years of gardening, I've concluded I am not in favour of it in the autumn unless a plant is diseased, or has completely dead topgrowth by October. Old gardening advice was to clean up the garden and leave nothing above ground that was perennial in order to reduce pests and diseases, and for the sake of tidiness and neatness - in fact, mostly what it does is reduce available foraging for birds, hedgehogs etc, not to mention leaving crowns of plants totally exposed to winter temperatures without their natural 'crown' of dead growth.