Garden maintenance activity: Deadheading garden flowers |
Remove spent flowers from your plants Removing flowers from plants when they are fading or dead, not only keeps the plants looking attractive but also encourages more blooms.
Removing the spent flowers is an important garden maintenance activity. Allowing the faded flowers to stay on, will lead the plant to direct an enormous amount of energy towards developing seeds, to the point where root, foliage and flower production is negatively affected. Benefits - Deadheading flowers allows the plant to divert all the energy in better growth of the plant and additional flowers and you will be able to enjoy more blooms from a larger and healthier plant.
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Deadheading garden flowers
7/11/13 7:09 PM
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