Keeping your yearly sunflower garden full of its vibrant and warm appearance comes from deadheading. This gardening task is all about removing dead flowers from your garden that are no longer ...

DENVER — The entire purpose of a plant is to reproduce. Flowers don't care if we think they're pretty or smell good. They exist to bloom, attract pollinators, set seed to start a new generation. It's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deadheading keeps your garden tidy and blooming by removing spent flowers so plants can put energy into fresh blooms instead of seed-making. Use pinching for tender-stemmed plants and clean pruners ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUNFLOWERS ARE THE smiling face of summer. Golden lion-headed blooms bowing under the weight of ripe seed — a veritable bird and squirrel buffet — are a classic garden favorite. But let’s face it; we ...

Not all flowers benefit from deadheading—and for those that do, you need to cut more plant away to be beneficial. Deadheading–the practice of chopping off a spent flowerhead from the plant— has long ...