As the garden ripens, the temptation to cut down those tatty old stems can be hard to resist. Apart from the fact that many seed-heads are beautifully architectural and provide a valuable winter larder for birds, there's another reason to hold on to your secateurs....the self-seeders.
Read MoreIt has been a strange autumn. Someone asked me recently what they should do with their iris, cut them down or leave them for a while. The foliage was apparently looking tatty though just about alive but to confuse the situation fresh flower buds were developing expectantly. Not bad for late November, but then perhaps not good either.
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