7 Perennials You Must Cut to the Ground Before Sept 20th (Otherwise It's Too Late For Next Year)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ Seven plants in your border look like they're winding down for the year. They're not. Each one is carrying something into next spring - spores, eggs, or rot - and for most of them, that window closes soon. This isn't a tidy-up. It's a hard cut to the ground while the soil's still warm enough for the plant to respond. One of these seven isn't really a pruning job at all - done badly enough, it doesn't cost you a weaker bloom next year. It costs you the plant. 🍂 ONE RULE UNDER ALL SEVEN Bagged, never composted. A home compost pile doesn't run hot enough to kill what's overwintering in any of this material - spores, eggs, or fungus alike. 💬 COMMENT: Drop your state below - the cutoff moves about six weeks between zone four and zone seven, and I'll tell you roughly where your window sits. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE - a new one every couple of days. 👍 LIKE if you've been letting one of these ride "until it looks worse"... 📚 SOURCES - university extension services (Minnesota, Purdue, Maryland, Iowa State, Vermont, Nebraska-Lincoln, Michigan State), Clemson HGIC, Pacific Northwest Pest Management Handbooks, Mt. Cuba Center trials, and the American Daylily Society. Full claim-by-claim list in the pinned comment on request. #PerennialGardening #FallGardening #SeptemberGarden #CutBackPerennials #GardeningTips #BeardedIris #IrisBorer #PowderyMildew #AmericanGardening #GardenMistakes #HenrysGardenNotes