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Re: Bleeding hearts, pinching perennials

Jill,
I usually go ahead and shear my Dicentra back. It usually then puts up a
new batch of foliage and sometimes even flowers again before fall. As for
your other plants I'd go ahead and give them a trim you'll have better,
bushier plants for it.
Linda
NW WA

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> From: S.J.S. <sneedbe@pinehurst.net>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Bleeding hearts, pinching perennials
> Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 9:27 AM
> 
> Can Dicentra spectablilis be cut back as it goes into dormancy? Every
> year I have to look at massive (3 foot by 4 foot) plants turning yellow
> and dying back in my perennial borders. I have never had the courage to
> cut, but I am feeling the urge...
> I also was away from home for an extended period of time this spring and
> did not get my perennials pinched back. I now have number of
> "fall-blooming" asters and sedums in bloom or budded. Not to mention the
> leggiest Buddleias, salvias, aesclepias, beebalms, etc. Do I just ignore
> and try to be better next year or can I do some cutting back now??
>                                       
>                                      Thanks in advance,
>                                             Jill
>                                             NC- Zone 7
> PS. I didn't mention heat, humidity and spider mites like never before..
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