Epimedium, cutting back?

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I have a lovely yellow flowering epimedium in my garden. The old leaves have a tendency to look a bit tatty at this time of year. Some years I have cut it right back, thus allowing the flowers to be seen well and the plant doesn't appear to object. But....nowhere have I read that this is what you are meant to do and I would hate to be weakening the plant at all. Any advice? Cut to the ground or not?

Oh yes, I do. I probably have the same one as you, and I cut all the top growth down in October or November. I had a really good show of flowers last year, so it certainly doesn't hurt!

Here is the Royal Horticulatural Society telling you to cut it back:
www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/6486/i-Epimedium-grandiflorum-i/Details

Oh lovely stuff, thank you. I shall cut it back when I think the worst of the weather is over. YAY!
(Also I have ordered a white and a red one, so I shall be able to look after those properly too(when they arrive))