Q: I have planted quite a few phlox plants in my border this year, and they are flowering beautifully. When the blooms fade, is it a good idea to deadhead them? And if so, what's the best approach to ...

Removing faded flowers stimulates more blooms on many plants. Deadhead flowers when they begin to wilt or fade. To deadhead effectively, remove the entire flowering portion, including any sepals or ...

Verbena is an extremely floriferous and attractive group of herbaceous perennials. Many of us could not be without verbena, not least for their propensity to play pied piper to millions of butterflies ...

Deadheading is an important but often poorly understood and underutilized gardening technique. This rather morbid term simply refers to pruning off old, faded flowers from a plant as it blooms. It is ...

Hanging baskets, planter boxes and perennial gardens that are bursting with color are seldom planted in spring and left untouched until autumn. Deadheading, pruning, trimming and pinching are all ...

This is a reminder to keep deadheading your perennial flowers. Daylilies are famous for quickly producing seed pods after they have finished blooming. Make certain you take off the entire seed head.

Deadheading, the removal of spent blooms, encourages new growth and more flowers. Annuals like zinnias and marigolds benefit from frequent deadheading, while others like impatiens are self-deadheading ...

There's nothing more rewarding to a gardener than watching a garden come to life after a long winter. But as the summer progresses, many of those wonderful blooming plants start to look a little worse ...

Asters are popular late summer perennials, sometimes grown as container annuals for fall color. Deadheading asters regularly helps to prolong their bloom time and encourage bigger blooms. When ...

(Illustration by Tony O. Champagne, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) QUESTION: When you say deadhead, what are you referring to and how should it be done properly? I have trimmed back mums with ...