These tried-and-trusted techniques help plants to grow back more strongly than ever
Many kinds of late spring/early summer flowering perennials also benefit from being cut back hard after they’ve finished flowering. Photograph: Getty Imagesadvice, so counterintuitive that they seem to make absolutely no sense at all. Why on earth, for example, should we pinch out the growing tip of a perfectly healthy seedling or plant stem as a way of encouraging it to fatten up? “Leggy”, after all, is usually a term of admiration rather than opprobrium.
When you pinch out a cosmos seedling or the young stem of a dahlia, for example, you remove its soft-growing tip. This growing tip is very rich in growth hormones and is responsible for a process known as apical dominance, which directs growth upwards rather than outwards.
Begonias and Delphiniums exhibited in advance of last year's Chelsea Flower Show in London. Photograph: Ben Stansall/Getty Images
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