Remove any old or damaged leaves and dead flower stalks.

Certainly, cut away really weedy stems and, if there are plenty, even some of the less chunky ones; vigorous, fat stems stand up better and produce stronger flower stalks.

Alliums, aquilegias and lady's mantle self-sow freely, so remove the spent flower stalks if you want to limit them.

Reddish brown sunken lesions (cankers) with bright red borders may develop on the flower stalks which may be stunted, distorted, and growing at an angle at the point of infection.

Although prostrate, it has erect flower stalks that give it a height of up to a metre.