Its time to cut down all the grotty looking perennials

Its time to cut down all the grotty looking perennials in your garden.  If they are still contributing something, foliage or attractive deed heads, by all means leave them until later, but if they are a mess, just cut them back to the base.  All the resulting rubbish is good for the compost heap.

It is an ideal opportunity to propagate by division.  Many perennials, once they are cut back, can be lifted, divided into two or three plants and replanted for next year.  It is good fun, buying one plant and two years later finding you have nine.