How to do the 'Chelsea Chop' | Troy Scott Smith's Sissinghurst way to pinch out plant tips in May

Find out how Troy Scott Smith, head gardener at the famous Sissinghurst garden in Kent, UK, does the 'Chelsea Chop' in late May while the famous flower show is on, to make plants more compact in growth and avoid staking, and to make them flower later. Troy does this with herbaceous perennial plants such as achillea, campanula and phlox.
Here's more on exactly how to do the Chelsea Chop
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[@Lilym661]

Me very lucky, in the last four or five years there has been a sudden rise in the dreaded muntjac. No need for pinching out here in rural norfolk the b….. little devils take the tops out with precision, unfortunately they keep coming back for afters! I despair.

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