Chris wrote:

I totally neglected my butterfly bush last year. Now I have beautiful
blooms, and I look forward to a gazillion Monarchs soon (I am right on
their east coast migration path) but I also have a bunch of dead
stalks from last year. Can I prune them off now? Should I wait till
Fall? Advice needed, thanks all!

i don't think it really harms anything
unless the bush is in a really windy location
(then it might thrash itself on the dead stuff
but really i think you'd have noticed that
by now)...

so my vote is for leaving it alone.


songbird