Janet Tweedy wrote:
The discussion was that you cut the OLD leaves from last year. Leave
this years leaves and the young ones on! It wasn't to display the
flowers, not sure why you thought that.
It is to clean up the plant and to stop diseases being carried over from
one year to next.
The plant needs its new leaves.

Yes - JennyC advised to remove the old leaves which looked ... well
old, but nothing more to this. Certainly do not remove young shoots nor
leaves )