I have a magenta colored yarrow, pink grapefruit yarrow or a yellow yarrow :) let me know if anything interests you! would love to trade for the clove pinks! ~Michael heavenlyfarm

I've heard of cutting them like that to promote shorter, tougher stalks on the plants, so they don't need staking or don't fall over. For me, both of these plants stood up fine without being cut back, and my hollyhocks get around 4' tall. My yarrows were an invasive variety, so they're getting eradicated as weeds now, but they weren't too floppy when I let them live. Another reason for this early-season cutting back is to postpone the bloom season, but I think that's only important if you have other flowers that bloom later than these and you're trying to get them all to bloom at the same time.

I'm growing the variety called Schwellenberg that Blue Stone perennials offered in their catalog. It's really a nice plant and doesn't lean or spread. It's color is a buttery yellow, about 24 inches high counting the flowers and with gray-green foliage. I cut all the brown flowers back, taking off about 8 inches. All the bottom foliage is left, but looking a little yellow and bedraggled with all the high temps and drought conditions we've had. I just thought cutting it down further would fresh up the plants a little, but that may not be the case. My salvia responded to cutting back after flowering so well that I thought yarrow might do the same. I just noticed there are some newer stems sprouting from the old stems.

Sheryl are you looking for the red with yellow Center? Or? Unfortunately. I dont have that one I do have a very deep fuschia colored one if that interests you Let me know Signet