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Radical efforts to save my garden
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Posted by barbaraj suffolk, uk (My Page) on Fri, Jul 21, 06 at 6:28
| I'm thinking of cutting back hard all my perennials which have finished flowering, in an effort to save water - I can't bear to see them all wilting. We are metered, and luckily not in a hose-pipe ban, so I want to do my best to be conservative in use. I am concerned though, that things like day-lillies may need the leaves left on in the same way as daffodils. I have already cut back my hardy geraniums, as I always do, but am a bit nervous about other plants. Any tips - or are they all cut off? :-) |
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RE: Radical efforts to save my garden
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| You won't kill the daylilies or the geraniums by cutting them back. Maybe they will be slightly smaller than they would have been, but that's not always a bad thing with those two ;) Personally I don't think you gain anything by chopping them. If they can't deal with the heat then they will die back anyway. Just tidy up any leaves and stems that are dying back. Some plants come back surprisingly well after you thought the heat had killed them, some don't. At least you won't have to worry as much next year :) |
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