If you take the time to plant and cultivate flowers, you want them to thrive as best they can. Deadheading doesn’t cost a dime or require any special equipment, and it can yield a long season of ...

Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...

My Favorite Garden Shears! <a href="https://amzn.to/3KYXdl2">https://amzn.to/3KYXdl2</a> Iris season is here! Iris flowers symbolize the start of summer, and ensuring that you deadhead the spent ...

It takes quite a bit of effort for flowers to bloom. It takes even more effort and resources for pollinated flowers to produce seed and the fruiting structures that contain the seed. If the seed of ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Deadheading is a gardening chore that many people find pleasant — by pinching off fading flowers, you can beautify your landscape and keep some plants blooming longer. But is it necessary? Deadheading ...

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Although deadheading rhododendrons is not necessary, it can be aesthetically pleasing. When the flowers fade, you can snap or cut off the flower stalk before the point where the leaves attach to the ...

The last week of June is good time to deadhead annual and perennial flowers to keep them blooming. Fuchsia baskets are especially in need of deadheading to remove the deep purple berries that form if ...