| Anthemis, Michaelmas daisies, heleniums, shasta daisies and rudbeckias all have a longer and more showy flowering period if rejuvenated from year to year. |
| Ideal plants are crocosmia, ligularia and heleniums, which peak in late summer and look best in the afternoon sun. |
| Many are loved for their guarantee of flowers and air of luxury, and include such favourites as lupins, heleniums, aster and phlox. |
| Plants that will benefit from this include heleniums, sedums, rudbeckia, phlox and solidago. |
| Generally deemed a shade-lover, it couldn't have looked happier in a sunny Danish border among fiery heleniums. |
| Woody stems, asters, heleniums and their ilk can be snapped off smartly at ground level or, if there are masses, sheared efficiently, giving them as close a crew cut as possible. |
