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Astilbe Chinensis 'Purpurkerze'
lloyd_shooter
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Afternoon All
As a newbie to gardening can anyone offer me some advice on the Purpurkerze I have in my garden?
Throughout the spring into summer it has beautiful purple candles and large volumes of green foliage and then it turns brown. I kept them as I think they look quite nice.
Now springs approaching should I cut them down, heads off etc to promote new growth.
Apologies for the ignorance!
Any help appreciated.
regards
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It is best to cut them down before too much new growth appears. The shoots can be fragile and it makes it harder to get at the old stems.
I leave my astilbe flower heads on too and just cut them off when there are signs of new growth.
Thanks all. Just to compound my display of ignorance, am i right that I just take the heads off? Not the whole stem.