I didn't get that description quite detailed, Deb (sometimes too lengthy is bad). I know what you are saying because I use those flowering stems at their first stages for cut flowers, which I mentioned in an above post. But in my opinion, at some point, there are no more pretty little flowers, and In my opinion they become tacky and the leaves more brown-green, than the fuzzy wanna-touch look. At that point, cutting them back hard can bring on a whole new flush of pretty leaves.
I even use the leaves as a border from my tussie-mussie (for better choice of words) short bouquets.
