Tuesday Tip

Summer Gardening Tips

Part 1

from HGTV

Did you know...

Some plants need to have their flowers removed in order to keep producing blooms. Here's a list of flowers that need deadheading as well as some that don't. My grandma taught me this when I was a little girl. She called it "pinching back".

You can often prolong bloom by removing spent flowers, but that's not true for all flowering plants. When a flower remains on a plant, the plant's energy is diverted into producing seed, rather than more flowers. Deadheading (removing the spent flower by pinching off or cutting back) is a must for many annuals but not all. With perennials, which generally have a shorter bloom period, deadheading usually isn't necessary but is used just to keep the plant looking tidy.

Plants that need deadheading:

• daisies
• daylilies
• dianthus
• coreopsis
• cosmos
• marigolds
• geraniums
• Nemesia
• pansies
• petunias (species and older varieties)
• roses
• zinnias

Plants that don't need deadheading:

• angelonia
• celosida (plume and wheat types)
• clematis
• crocosmia
• lantana
• melampodium
• rudbeckia
• verbena (groundcover types)
• vinca
• Wave petunias and other new petunia varieties

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