Keep your flowers blooming longer and your garden a bit tidier with deadheading. Removing faded flowers can promote repeat bloom on some plants, encourage fuller, more compact growth, and tidy up the ...

Gerbera daisies thrive in well-drained soil, preferably in containers or raised beds, and require morning sun and afternoon shade. Regular maintenance includes bi-weekly fertilizing and deadheading ...

One of the first gardening tasks that children — or any beginner — can enjoy is removing spent flowers in the garden. It's rewarding to make the plant immediately look better. But what other benefits ...

When the calendar reaches August each summer, many flowering plants are near the end of the first act of the glorious show they orchestrate in our landscapes each season. This is the time when many of ...

Deadheading extends blooms, but letting some set seed helps wildlife and the garden. Stop deadheading once plants need to produce seed for the season’s end. Know your plant’s bloom cycle and watch for ...

Sooner or later, the time comes in the growing season when gardeners must begin the time-consuming process of deadheading, or removing the dying flowers from each plant (no relation to the Grateful ...

Deadheading in October isn't advised for many plants, but it's a good way to control self-seeding and maybe even get one last round of blooms for the season.