When these have stopped flowering I've been going round and dead-heading
them ... at the moment I'm just cutting off the old flower head beneath the
flower ... should I be taking the whole stem off too and just leaving the
leaves ? or is what I'm doing now better for the plant ?

"Richard" wrote in message
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When these have stopped flowering I've been going round and dead-heading
them ... at the moment I'm just cutting off the old flower head beneath
the
flower ... should I be taking the whole stem off too and just leaving the
leaves ? or is what I'm doing now better for the plant ?

You are doing just fine lopping off the flower head only.....H