Chelsea Chop - Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2024
- What is the Chelsea Chop? Why do you chop? When do you chop? What plants do you chop? How do you chop? There is more than one answer to everyone of these questions, but it's not as complicated as you think. Come along as I share this easy gardening secret and how it impacts my garden.
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That herringbone brick path in the front walkway is so charming!!!!! It really sets off the beautiful border plantings. I know the Chelsea chop is so beneficial... but I am the worst at cutting anything that has a flower on it. I follow another gardener who is brutal with her chopping and pruning. It amazes me how she can mow down an entire section that , to me, is looking incredible. But hers always comes back better than ever. I must be brave!
I totally agree! I started by just pinching and moved on to more agressive cutting when I saw the results.
First that I have ever heard of this and will be trying here! Thanks again!
Hope you like it!
It's a myth, you get less flowers. Let your flowers do their thing as nature intended and they are beautiful.
Thank you for the tutorial. I’ve always been afraid to chop because I thought there was more of a strategy to it. I went right outside and gave my phlox a little haircut
Let me know how your phlox performs this year!
@@stonecottageadventures304 will do! I got a little scissor happy and cut off a few sprigs of sedum, which I’m rooting in some water, and my blue stem goldenrod. A well-intended rabbit helped me out with one of my heliopsis plants.
Really beautiful
Thank you so much 😊
The Chelsea Chop is great for many flowers. However, if you are a competition gardener, you will not do this, because the size of the flower, fragrance, shape, etc is determined by no chop chop. When you do the chop, the plant is forced to distribute its native energy to all of the new side shoots it is building, and the resulting flowers will be many more, but smaller.
Great for my Phlox David, and Asters, and Veronicastrum. All of those need staking every year, which is tedious.
Have not tried this on my Sedum, but will do it this year, for sure.
Thanks for the great info.😊
One of the downsides is definitely smaller blossoms. I will never be skilled enough to be a competitive gardener.
Greeting's from Ireland, great video and lovely garden. The only flower's I cut back in mid summer are Cranesbill geranium's, Sage nemorosa caradonna and campanula. The rest of the flowers are deadheaded during the summer.
Thanks for sharing!
Here in middle Tennessee it's lush and drippy. Chopping everything tomorrow!
Have fun!
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You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the Chelsea chop video. I do propagate sedum joy.. one plant has turned into 10 or more.
Love your relax way of gardening ❤
So nice of you
Last summer I tried the “Chelsea Chop” on my perennial salvias and spiderworts because they grew very leggy, tired and floppy. It did the trick!
I always cut back my spiderwort after they bloom to get a second wave of flowers.
Thank you so much! I think I’ve been pulling up tall phlox thinking they were weeds imitating my phlox plant.
Glad I could help!
Thanks for the tutorial on the Chelsea chop method. I have been diligent this season to do this on my mums and they are really benefitting by growing into a more mound shape. Will do it again in June. If you are dividing a perennial, e.g. Mrs Stokes aster, would you chop or wait until plant recovers from move?
If you have divided the plant, it might be the perfect time to have a controlled experiment - chop just one and compare them. Then let us all know your results!
Is it still a Chelsea Chop if the deer eat your blossoms? 🦌🌸
The leaves, yes. The flowers, no. Naughty deer.