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A question, those two stunning alliums had some of their leaves trimmed back, I suppose to get rid of brown tips. Are plants down-graded for this practice?
Quote from: Lesley Cox on May 17, 2009, 10:23:06 PMA question, those two stunning alliums had some of their leaves trimmed back, I suppose to get rid of brown tips. Are plants down-graded for this practice? No, they are not, Lesley, it has actually become the accepted practice for this group of alliums whose leaves are invariably going over by the time they are in flower.
I have been very frustrated at times by complaints that a plant's leaves " are not perfect, look, they're dying back" when that is precisely what THAT plant DOES in nature, every year....... It irritates me hugely that folk cannot grasp that just as some plants flower with, before or after their leaves emerge, that some also flower as their foliage is dying. I only hope all fellow judges are reading this!!