Once its flowers fade, cut off the branches that carried them.

Divide by lifting each clump as the flowers fade and gently pull them apart to make two new clumps.

Try to do this every day until the flowers fade and you should get a good crop.

As the flowers fade and the petals drop, the understudy takes over and the intact calyces take centre stage for autumn.

And as the flowers fade the foliage comes into its own, deepening to shades of dark crimson and copper.