Getting a bit late, but as long as some new growth is left on ,it will still flower next year.

Thank you! Owdboggy.

Mine grew to about 25ft tall, so this year it has been cut back to the floor, well almost to the floor,(two weeks ago) and I can see that it is already growing back from out of the woody stump which was left. I know it will not flower next year but I am hoping to be able to control the height of it much better from now on. We shall see. lol.

Thanks Oliveoil - It'll be interesting to see if you get even a small amount of flowers :-)

Mine was only about 6ft when I cut it hard back 4 weeks ago,but not quite to the ground. I did the same a few years ago at the same time, and was happy to see lots of flowers in the spring. i didn't realise they would grow to such a size as 25ft. That must have been one heck of a job Olive Oil; I thought mine was a big undertaking.

That's good to know Merlinbabydog's. Thanks! my friend might be lucky with flowers too :-))

I am not expecting flowers, but will try to keep it more under control than it was this summer. lol. It grew up into the huge Blackthorn tree and intertwined with it so it was a huge job but we (me and hubby) managed to get it down, he chopped the biggest trunk with the chain saw and then we lopped the rest down with my trusty lopping tool. The worst part I find is clearing away the piles of debris that is left when you do a job like this. We do not have issues with dispatching the rubbish to the tip as we have an 80 acre wood alongside the garden in fact all around the garden is surrounded by trees, hence why it grew so tall as does much of the garden, seeking light etc. We just pile up the wood and leaves and allow it to rot down, we are very fortunate in living here as we can make compost in the wood too. I am hoping to keep it about four feet in height, as with the holly bush at the side of where it grows, they block out a lot of light from the front garden so it is a necessity really to control/restrict the height. After saying that the mock orange was a little disappointing as the blossom never seemed to smell all that much but the flowers are very pretty. Ah well always another year for the flowers.

My word Oliveoil, 80 acre wood how fab - lucky you! I love trees.We moved to this garden in May and had to remove a holly, limbs from a huge silver birch which I felt really guilty about but they were huge and half way across the garden. I think the lilac will have to go as it's listing to one side and has two trunks. I've looked to see if I can cut it back to one but no, both are crooked. Another to go is a small sapling laburnum and some limbs from a Rowan. We had a huge willow stump ground out - its 5ft circumference 3ft high stump had started to re sprout and it was right in the middle of the border! Our little garden is only 41ft x 38ft which was made very dark due to the wrong trees being planted in such a small place.

I am very lucky Helenium :O) the only problem I have in my garden is the lack of light, it gets sun most of the day but because of the trees surrounding it the plants grow leggier than they should be but I am not complaining I love it here. Years ago a friendly Postman said it is just like an Oasis here when he delivered a parcel to my back door. He was right! lol :O)

Qliveoil, you couldn't have a better complement about your garden - that says a lot about your gardening skills ;-))