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Euphorbia
Cut back the flowered shoots in late summer but beware the sap. Always wear gloves when handling as the milky-white latex sap is highly irritating to skin.
Euphorbia 'Wulfenii'. Beautiful plant, great for structure and sets off other plants nicely.
As others have said, wear gloves to avoid contact with the irritant sap.
Cut back stems that have flowered to the ground (late summer?) to regenerate from the base. Stems that have not flowered still have value for their foliage. Might take a 2-3 seasons to renovate to a smaller size. That's what I'd plan to do, not sure how it would respond if you took the whole lot down to ground level in one go.
If selecting stems to take out, take care not to damage the ones left behind as they could snap easily and foliage messed up a bit.
Thanks for all the help. Good job I asked, don't want skin rashes.
It has been cut back before, I have been removing the dead stems, looks much better for it.
Melissa, see what you mean about damaging the growing stems, a bit of a nudge and they crack and over go the longer ones. Thanks for the tip.
Scott, even when wearing gloves, I had that sap get into my eyes and it was excruciating. I had to have eyes washed out and was uncomfortably for the next 24hrs.
It was hot while cutting them back, sweating on the brow and was continually wiping my brow with the back of the gloves. I guess some sap got transferred back on my brow and with the sweat, it moved into my eyes. Ouch.