Perennials: Cut back your platycodon grandiflorus?, 2 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
What a great article!

I just did what you make reference to in your last paragraph. I had not thought it through the way you have, but I just spent the last week chopping away. It also helps me decide what to move. Now to go back and add fertilizer, as you suggest. My beautiful Campanula Bernice (one of my favorite flowers) gets clobbered by nepeta (what an enthusiastic grower!) every year, and at some point I wonder where the heck it is and chop back the nepeta to find the poor little Bernices, all bloomed out, at the bottom. I then liberate and compost them, but it is clearly time to move them. They cost a lot to acquire. The first time I got three for $12 from Bluestone. A couple of years later they were $16 EACH! Thank goodness they are survivors.