Ladies and gentlemen: it’s time. Time for the Chelsea Chop. It’s the English gardener’s miracle cure, the secret to a long flowering period, and the way to get compact, bushy plants. So, grab your clippers and read on. The Chelsea Chop is a pruning method for certain herbaceous plants that you carry out at the end of May/beginning of June – around the time of the legendary Chelsea Flower Show. It makes herbaceous plants, like phlox and stonecrop, grow much bushier and signifi