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calycanthus
Hi all, hoping you can help. I have a Calycanthus Floridus, it is really bare at the bottom and the best advice I can find on google is to trim back after flowering, if I did that there would be virtually no plant left. So I decided to ask the experts if any of you had any ideas 
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I'd plant something in front of it that masked the bare bits - astrantia would look good, or a lovely purple penstemen
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove, do you think I should take the tops off the main stems to see if it would promote side growth or just leave it alone? Purple penstemon sounds good
This says "...Prune when buds begin to swell in early spring by cutting back to a low permanent framework..." http://www.finegardening.com/allspice-calycanthus#ixzz3gMlE8Q8Y
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Brillant, I couldn't find it
I'll now have to force myself to go to GC for something for the bottom of it 