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 ...

You don’t need tie dye and dancing bears to be a deadhead in your own backyard. Deadheading is an important task for any gardener who wants to see multiple blooms in the flower garden. You don’t need ...

While lilacs are relatively easy to grow, you might be wondering whether or not these fragrant shrubs need deadheading after the flowers begin to fade and fall during spring. In my experience, while ...

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, ...

There are plenty of plant care techniques that help growers yield greater gains, like wiring and “screen of green” netting that help plants grow higher and reach more sun. And of course there’s ...

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 dahlias regularly is key to a long, vigorous blooming season. Fading blooms should be deadheaded as soon as the flower centers start opening. Making deep cuts when deadheading encourages a ...

Deadheading is an essential practice in the garden, one that encourages beautiful, well-maintained flowers. In short, the process involves removing spent buds; doing so redirects the plant's energy ...

Deadheading is an important task for any flower garden, but there's a right time and wrong time to do this task, depending on what you are growing.

I use a small and accurate pair of hand secateurs to do my deadheading as it’s all about hitting the right spot on the stem. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT We should step back from the rose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oksana Chaun/Getty Images We’re deep into summer, and gardens are (finally!) bursting with their best blooms. To keep those ...