Salvia offer swathes of beautiful, colorful blooms in summer, but should you be deadheading yours? The answer, in brief, is that it's not vital to their survival, but doing so will promote healthy ...

Pick up your pruners! It's time to deadhead these flowers to keep them blooming all summer long.

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 ...

Deadheading, or the practice of removing spent blooms from plants, is a regular part of many gardeners’ routines. It can help ensure a tidy appearance, redirect the plant’s energy away from seed ...

Every summer, gardeners spend hundreds of dollars on annuals and perennials, plant them with care, watch them bloom beautifully in June, and then quietly watch them fade by August, assuming the show ...

A common deed in the August garden is what gardeners call “deadheading.” This somewhat morbid term is a form of plant-cutting that involves snipping or pinching off flowers after they’ve finished ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deadheading means to remove faded flowers from a plant. It is a good garden maintenance practice and should be done on a regular basis. The challenges are that we forget to do it, and, when we ...

Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will ...