Get the best from perennials

MANY perennial plants, herbaceous and evergreen, can benefit from some attention now.

Plants such as Lupin, Delphinium, Verbascum, Hosta, to name but a few, will be flowering freely at this stage and to ensure you continue to get the best from them, get the secateurs out and start cleaning up now.

Remove dead or nearly dead flower stems unless you are planning to collect seed, in which case leave them on the plant until the seeds have ripened.